June 5, 2007

• Observations Along Life’s Way

  Marriage starts much in the same way a boxing match does.  The opponents stand facing each other from a few feet apart.  While they stare each other down, the referee reads the rules.  Once all the rules have been read and the opponents agree to the terms, the fight begins.

  I hate it when I am mowing the lawn and there is a bee guarding a specific spot.  Why do they just hover there?  Bees cannot fly so they can stay in one spot for no reason.

  God is like a present that we must open.  But instead of opening it all of us are ambivalent, asking the giver hestitantly, “What’s in it?”  That is the ultimate problem in our dealings with God and the unknown: we cannot know what is holds until we delve into the heart of it.  There is no knowing the nature of an unexperienced thing.  Open it or do not open it, but realize fully the implications of both.

  Virtue and work both make people feel good for doing them, and yet people still wish not to do them.

  Leaving high school is a tragedy of sorts.  All of the faces we have known, all the places we have seen, and all the world we know, is now changed forever.  The cast and setting of life is to be immediately replaced.  Naturally you grow a certain attachment to faces you see everyday; it’s sad when they’re not there.   It’s sort of like the dinosaurs are dying out; it is the end of an epoch in one’s life.

  You know yourself best. As you move outside your mind, you get further away from your surest knowledge.

  Clarity is a difficult end to attain.  It is hard to put an original thought into someone else’s mind through writing about it.  It was first a thought, and the writing is just a vague reflection of it. 

  Knowledge is often illusory.  Watching another learn something does not mean you have learned it.  Knowing that it is a thing to be learned does not mean you have learned it either.  All of us have masked ourselves with having learned things by simply having association with them.  The news is startling, how amateurish we all are at the most common and daily functions of the human life.  Once we see them in their pure forms, we are aggravated to understand that we must painfully apply ourselves about to actually acquiring the traits of true goodness.  And the tragedy then arrives: The hardest way, and the only way, to learn something is by learning it.

  Ta ta for now!  Sorry about the discursiveness of aggregating a collection of random thoughts! 

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