looking back
There have been a long list of crazy entires by me since this journal started. I can't even imagine not having this place to come and type it all out. It is also better than myspace because everyone on earth goes and reads myspace. this is so much more intimate, if that is possible on the internet. SO sitting here and enjoying a glass of Rioja, I type.
I am reading a new kurt vonnegut book right now. 40 pages today on the train, "timequake." It is already amazing. Ever since I finished college I see myself reading more and more. This is what I have read since I moved to New York.
Needled to death
Drown, by Junot diaz
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Life of Pi
(half of) The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
How to Meditate
The Stranger, Albert Camus
plus the "L" magazine bi-weekly, amoungst other stuff
oh and natural health magazine, which my neighbor works for
but anyways, all the free time has done my brain well.
I am learned new skills and FINALLY feel as though I am at the place I was mentally when I left high school. Interested, inquisitve, ambitious, peaceful....all the things that vanished for so long. College, I swear makes you less mature, while it is supposed to be teaching you the skills to live. It teaches you skills for a job, but not life. Never life. You learn that other ways.
but that is besides the point. Learning about meditation is what makes you feel better, things like that. even though I have been doing that since high school. You keep learning.
Also, here's a question.
If you are born a jew and you neve go to temple, you are still a jew. If you are born catholic and you never go to mass you are still catholic, but if you do not know all the details of everey aspect of a religion that you have been practicing for years, why are you not considered that faith until you have gone through some ritual, like a baptism?? I work with many Buddhists, pretty much everyone at work is. I have been studying and practicing the ideals of buddhism/taoism since I was about 16. i used to go to a buddhist temple. I studied with a tea master. I am watched Tibeten Monks make and wash away sand mandalas. YET, when I say, yes, I am a practicing Buddhist of sorts....people question to no end. That is why I never talk about it. but I know more than most who were born into it am dont practice. weird? right? well not really, but this rant is over. goodnight
I am reading a new kurt vonnegut book right now. 40 pages today on the train, "timequake." It is already amazing. Ever since I finished college I see myself reading more and more. This is what I have read since I moved to New York.
Needled to death
Drown, by Junot diaz
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Life of Pi
(half of) The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
How to Meditate
The Stranger, Albert Camus
plus the "L" magazine bi-weekly, amoungst other stuff
oh and natural health magazine, which my neighbor works for
but anyways, all the free time has done my brain well.
I am learned new skills and FINALLY feel as though I am at the place I was mentally when I left high school. Interested, inquisitve, ambitious, peaceful....all the things that vanished for so long. College, I swear makes you less mature, while it is supposed to be teaching you the skills to live. It teaches you skills for a job, but not life. Never life. You learn that other ways.
but that is besides the point. Learning about meditation is what makes you feel better, things like that. even though I have been doing that since high school. You keep learning.
Also, here's a question.
If you are born a jew and you neve go to temple, you are still a jew. If you are born catholic and you never go to mass you are still catholic, but if you do not know all the details of everey aspect of a religion that you have been practicing for years, why are you not considered that faith until you have gone through some ritual, like a baptism?? I work with many Buddhists, pretty much everyone at work is. I have been studying and practicing the ideals of buddhism/taoism since I was about 16. i used to go to a buddhist temple. I studied with a tea master. I am watched Tibeten Monks make and wash away sand mandalas. YET, when I say, yes, I am a practicing Buddhist of sorts....people question to no end. That is why I never talk about it. but I know more than most who were born into it am dont practice. weird? right? well not really, but this rant is over. goodnight