First of all I would like to wish a day early Happy Halloween to everyone.
I finally finished "
Sole Survivor" a few days ago. Because of school and other distractions it took me a lot longer to read that one than the ones in the past. So finishing that one I went to the store and bought a new Koontz book to read called "
Odd Thomas".
In "
Odd Thomas" I read the quote "I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I'm old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless." I am not sure why but this made me think of a conversation Michael and I had a few days back. We were talking about whether dying is as bad as people think it is. I told him it depends on how you look at it. If you're a Christian then no dying is not all that bad, though you are in no rush to get there. But if you look at it from non-Christian point of view then its different. If your someone in the late teens or very early twenties the only big things you really have to look forward to is marriage, children, retirement and eventually grandchildren. Those don't even apply to all people. Like Michael for example in recent weeks seems to be leaning toward the idea of not wanting to get married or have kids so out of all of those all he has is retirement and at his age that's a really long way off. But there are also negatives ahead of someone this age. Like having to get up early every morning and go to work 5 days a week, like a robot, for 40 or more years. Which that brings many more responsibilities of which some can be fun and others are not so fun. Like, more bills, taking care of other people and your kids if you have any, other financial situations and the list just goes on. Plus there is always that factor of getting older and losing your younger looks and joints stiffening and not working like they used to. So if your around the age the age of late teens and very early twenties would dying soon really be that bad of a thing? Human nature says no it is a bad thing because no one really wants to die. But taking out human nature then is it? Well once again I think it depends on the individual. For me I guess in a way I have to take the Christian view even though I am not a big Christian. I don't believe dying would be bad but at the same time, even with taking the human nature factor out, I don't want to die anytime soon.
If I could I would rather, after I graduate from college, back track to the first day of first grade and live my life again from that point. For a few reasons. 1.) being the fact of having little to no responsibilities and being able to just be a kid, 2.) having long breaks to relax to some extent, 3.) to be able to go back and do things I regret not doing and 4.) you wouldn't have to worry about all those things I mentioned above. Only negative to doing it this way is you would not get the positives of going older. Of course this is all impossible and we must grow older.
I temporarily caught Michaels bug of over spending. I went to the mall Friday afternoon just to get out of this dorm room and had no plans of buying anything. But instead I ended up walking out of there having spent over $75 on things that I don't need. Oh well.
It looks like in order to vote I am going to have to travel to Charlotte on Tuesday. I never got an absentee ballet which is partially my fault and partially not my fault because I have never done the absentee ballet thing before so I had no idea how it works. In order to go I would probably have to miss my Weather Analysis class on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks and my Calc. class on Wednesday assuming I stayed the night instead of driving back the same day. It would depend on my mood and how I felt that day.
Finally, for anyone, like Michael, who might forget this is just a reminder to set your clocks back an hour tonight.
|| Vespere Hesperian 6:11 PM
