October 31, 2013
My solace
... Jesus answered them, "Do you believe now? Behold, the hour is coming and has arrived when each of you will be scattered to his own home and you will leave me alone. But I am not alone, because the Father is with me. I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world." - John 33:16
When I read this scripture, something within the deepest parts of my self stirs with great confidence and happiness. The hustle in respects to the worries I have is nullified, and I'm reminded everything will be okay.
October 22, 2013
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October 18, 2013
Midterms
It's as if everything I post now only relates to school lol, or mostly to school, but it's kind of all I'm really doing so...
It doesn't get dull. Tiring, yes, but only because I'm physically tired, in no way interiorly tired. I'm so happy. I took my first university midterm today, to me, it's what I've been waiting for for a long, long time, as odd as that sounds. I have two midterms on monday, so the weekend is full to say the least.
Just an update. My best to everyone taking exams right now.
It doesn't get dull. Tiring, yes, but only because I'm physically tired, in no way interiorly tired. I'm so happy. I took my first university midterm today, to me, it's what I've been waiting for for a long, long time, as odd as that sounds. I have two midterms on monday, so the weekend is full to say the least.
Just an update. My best to everyone taking exams right now.
October 14, 2013
Why I love Literature
I was born a science guy. I used to fantasize that my closet had a secret door which lead to an underground laboratory, with pipets, erlenmeyer flasks, and lab coats (mine personalized as Dr. Simmons) -- it goes without saying, I was a huge Dexter's Laboratory fan when I was kid.
Slowly though, I began to appreciate the other side of the human experience, from physical sciences... to the human experience. It began in dance, I started to dance in middle school, and continued onto high school by being a part of my High School's dance company. And I loved it, but long story short, I ended up so caught up in dance that I forgot to balance it with my love with science.
In college, one course forever changed my perception of reality and ingrained in me the realization of the need for one to come to an appreciation for and balance of science and the human experience, a balance of both extremes of the spectrum, from pure mathematics to abstract art, both are necessary.
One part of the human experience I'm so in love with is literature. Literature is essentially everything you've read of in history, or in the news, or of situations in life (love, relationships, stories, etc), but told in either in a first person account or third person account, all done so artfully. You can't fully know a situation without reading the literature of the situation.
Literature is personal (essays are different, but still personal, lol). It all boils down to this, literature is personal. The sincerity of the human experience can be written. I can know of no more compassionate person than one who considers another person's literature (in the case when you aren't able to actually meet or know the person, in person).
Slowly though, I began to appreciate the other side of the human experience, from physical sciences... to the human experience. It began in dance, I started to dance in middle school, and continued onto high school by being a part of my High School's dance company. And I loved it, but long story short, I ended up so caught up in dance that I forgot to balance it with my love with science.
In college, one course forever changed my perception of reality and ingrained in me the realization of the need for one to come to an appreciation for and balance of science and the human experience, a balance of both extremes of the spectrum, from pure mathematics to abstract art, both are necessary.
One part of the human experience I'm so in love with is literature. Literature is essentially everything you've read of in history, or in the news, or of situations in life (love, relationships, stories, etc), but told in either in a first person account or third person account, all done so artfully. You can't fully know a situation without reading the literature of the situation.
Literature is personal (essays are different, but still personal, lol). It all boils down to this, literature is personal. The sincerity of the human experience can be written. I can know of no more compassionate person than one who considers another person's literature (in the case when you aren't able to actually meet or know the person, in person).
October 11, 2013
Songs like this...
... at the right moments, like now for me, how I've just spent the whole day going through frustrations, worries (I know, I got to stop that), and long hours studying, now just laying on the couch, on the computer looking out the window, having gone through a long day of work, again, feeling incredibly blessed I'm able to do everything I'm doing right now, just sync so well I can't quite explain properly how happy, thankful, peaceful I am...
October 10, 2013
A long day but...
Just spent over 14 hours on campus today, studying, class, internship application. I have a midterm next week and two more midterms the week after.
... I've never loved it more.
... I've never loved it more.
October 5, 2013
Oh, the absurdity
One of my favorite topics to talk about is the Absurd, a specific part of the Existentialism.
The Absurd is a powerfully humbling thought in its own right. It basically states that humans have a deep longing to find answers to the hardest questions of life, but are incapable of finding the answers because of our nature as human beings. Again, it's a powerful, sobering, and humble thought... I've spent countless hours ruminating and reflecting on it... absurd thinking channels the same feelings as looking in helpless-awe at the night sky. Absurdism came to be from the depths of a person who has hit rock-bottom, one who has been hallowed and helled, on the knees in surrender, eyes flowing of rivers, wrung and devoid.
This blog comes with a caution though, because absurdity in and of itself as one's only worldview can become completely depressing, even anarchic.
There's nothing more solacing, nothing more invigorating, nothing more full of hope than answering the problem absurdity poses with the truth of Christ. It's the beautiful answer. More full than existentialism, romanticism, impermanence, transcendentalism, realism, etc... in all their applications is Christendom.
But don't take my word for it, instead allow yourself to be open to the realization, the beautiful epiphany. It's a journey worth taking, and to do your best while on this earth is only goal.
The Absurd is a powerfully humbling thought in its own right. It basically states that humans have a deep longing to find answers to the hardest questions of life, but are incapable of finding the answers because of our nature as human beings. Again, it's a powerful, sobering, and humble thought... I've spent countless hours ruminating and reflecting on it... absurd thinking channels the same feelings as looking in helpless-awe at the night sky. Absurdism came to be from the depths of a person who has hit rock-bottom, one who has been hallowed and helled, on the knees in surrender, eyes flowing of rivers, wrung and devoid.
This blog comes with a caution though, because absurdity in and of itself as one's only worldview can become completely depressing, even anarchic.
There's nothing more solacing, nothing more invigorating, nothing more full of hope than answering the problem absurdity poses with the truth of Christ. It's the beautiful answer. More full than existentialism, romanticism, impermanence, transcendentalism, realism, etc... in all their applications is Christendom.
But don't take my word for it, instead allow yourself to be open to the realization, the beautiful epiphany. It's a journey worth taking, and to do your best while on this earth is only goal.
October 4, 2013
A little Emerson
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where was this in Nature and "The American Scholar"? lol
October 3, 2013
It got real, real quick
Quarter system is so fast. Each lecture we cover one chapter...in each class. And I'm taking the lower end of full time, so three classes... I'm piling up 3 chapters in a two days spread between rotating classes... that is fast. But I'm game so game... stressed a bit... but game.
October 2, 2013
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