My semester can be summed up in one Nietzsche section: As can be the start of my summer, which is bleeding into the finale of my time at ACC. (Thank goodness)
We have forsaken the land and have embarked! We have burned our bridges behind us—indeed, we have gone further and destroyed the land behind us! Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean: to be sure, it does not always roar, and at times it lies spread out like silk and gold and reveries of graciousness. But hours will come when you will realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity. Oh, the poor bird that felt free and now strikes the walls of this cage! Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom—and there is no longer any "land"!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Racing...
I have so many worries and concerns lately,
But one of the biggest concerns I have is that I am always concerned. I have always been someone who was discontented with my current situation. Even in early elementary school I would make up stories about what was going on in my life so that I would seem more interesting. I would say I went to Disney Land, or skiing, or maybe to Europe. When in fact, I have yet to ever go to these places. But I want to turn a new leaf. I am just 4 weeks shy of being 21 and I'm tired of being upset and stressed out all the time.
Fuck the past.
In America I saw the freest and most enlightened men placed in the happiest condition that exists in the world; it seemed to me that a sort of cloud habitually covered their features; they appeared to me grace and almost sad even in their pleasures.
The principal reason for this is that the first do not think of the evils they endure, whereas the others dream constantly of the food they do not have.
It is a strange thing to see with what sort of feverish ardor Americans pursue well being and how they show themselves constantly tormented by a vague fear of not having chosen the shortest route that can lead to it.
-Tocqueville
But one of the biggest concerns I have is that I am always concerned. I have always been someone who was discontented with my current situation. Even in early elementary school I would make up stories about what was going on in my life so that I would seem more interesting. I would say I went to Disney Land, or skiing, or maybe to Europe. When in fact, I have yet to ever go to these places. But I want to turn a new leaf. I am just 4 weeks shy of being 21 and I'm tired of being upset and stressed out all the time.
Fuck the past.
In America I saw the freest and most enlightened men placed in the happiest condition that exists in the world; it seemed to me that a sort of cloud habitually covered their features; they appeared to me grace and almost sad even in their pleasures.
The principal reason for this is that the first do not think of the evils they endure, whereas the others dream constantly of the food they do not have.
It is a strange thing to see with what sort of feverish ardor Americans pursue well being and how they show themselves constantly tormented by a vague fear of not having chosen the shortest route that can lead to it.
-Tocqueville
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