7.27.2004
"I'll be honest about it. It's not the atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
- from Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- from Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
7.06.2004
I wish...
I had something worthwhile to blog about.
Life at home has taken some adapting to. There's the foreign yet familiar routine, the bathrooms to share, the curfews to make. I feel ungrateful and unappreciative for feeling like my freedom's been taken away in exchange for free food, laundry, and transportation. Yet at the same time, the essence of a lot of my growth has been nurtured by the responsibility that's shackled with that joie de vivre. So I feel a little stagnant and withdrawn, unable to fully enjoy the company of my friends and family without that hindering twinge of guilt....
Then again, the summer is half over. And then I commence my last undergraduate year of studies. I know I should hang on to these moments while they last...but why must it be so hard??
I had something worthwhile to blog about.
Life at home has taken some adapting to. There's the foreign yet familiar routine, the bathrooms to share, the curfews to make. I feel ungrateful and unappreciative for feeling like my freedom's been taken away in exchange for free food, laundry, and transportation. Yet at the same time, the essence of a lot of my growth has been nurtured by the responsibility that's shackled with that joie de vivre. So I feel a little stagnant and withdrawn, unable to fully enjoy the company of my friends and family without that hindering twinge of guilt....
Then again, the summer is half over. And then I commence my last undergraduate year of studies. I know I should hang on to these moments while they last...but why must it be so hard??
