there goes the neighborhood
Last night, over a game of billiards, I discussed with a visiting Joe Fawls the changing climate that is effecting the attitudes and actions of all the people we used to know. How we live in a little world, where the New Port Richey of old remains as visually stable as it was, where sex is no longer taboo; it's what happens on the weekends.
A world where college is not a place of great knowledge and opportunity, but a cold empty camp. It's where instead of our dreams turning to reality, our lives become stale and loose their meaning in the vast cosmological sense.
A world where, through the great works of modern astronomy, philosophy, religious studies and biology that if you take even the most basic forms of classes in these areas, you wont believe in god as it is known to any of the major religions. A world where the universe is too big for Jesus, or even us, to have any relevance. Where God is no longer feared, but used as a security blanket for those afraid of dying.
A world where the only people who aren't amending their own values or are the same whom we percieved as fake and insolent in our years before. How good it is to find out that some people do stay the same.
We are living in a world where finding a career is more of a death sentence than a grand success. Is a 20-something angst kicking in, or am I just depressed again? Jocine - and countless others, to be honest - have asked me why I never write about anything I am happy about. She knows what I am happy about, though.
And I was truly happy to see Joe last night too.
Alex
A world where college is not a place of great knowledge and opportunity, but a cold empty camp. It's where instead of our dreams turning to reality, our lives become stale and loose their meaning in the vast cosmological sense.
A world where, through the great works of modern astronomy, philosophy, religious studies and biology that if you take even the most basic forms of classes in these areas, you wont believe in god as it is known to any of the major religions. A world where the universe is too big for Jesus, or even us, to have any relevance. Where God is no longer feared, but used as a security blanket for those afraid of dying.
A world where the only people who aren't amending their own values or are the same whom we percieved as fake and insolent in our years before. How good it is to find out that some people do stay the same.
We are living in a world where finding a career is more of a death sentence than a grand success. Is a 20-something angst kicking in, or am I just depressed again? Jocine - and countless others, to be honest - have asked me why I never write about anything I am happy about. She knows what I am happy about, though.
And I was truly happy to see Joe last night too.
Alex