I fail at keeping up this blog. I have moments where I'm so eager to just throw something online, in a journal, in a facebook note ... but my enthusiasm is always fairly short-lived. I think the only two things I've managed to ever be really truly consistent about are reading and running. Everything else I tend to just drop after a while. Even piano and guitar I binge practice, and then take long breaks from so that the calluses threaten to go away. Then I have to go back at it and recut my fingertips on those unforgiving strings.
I said something quite deep the other day, if I do say so myself:
"People choose their own level of ignorance."
I just felt like pointing that out because I have so few pearls of amazing insight on a day-to-day basis. As a lit major, you'd think I'd absorb some of the inventive and cleverness and discernment of whoever I'm reading. Perhaps given a few more years of endless reading and tedious essays I'll have the wit of Nietzsche - I pretty much already possess some of his severe disappointment in humanity.
A little anecdote here: I used to be so obsessed with finding random cynical quotes by Nietzsche in high school. Now that I've actually read one of his most famous works, The AntiChrist, I am even more enamoured of this man. He calls Immanuel Kant an idiot. I concur.
Recommended reading: Atonement, it's quote good. I will actually consider watching the movie. I'm sure the movie is incomparable, however.
Blood and Guts In High School is like reading a mash-up of some bdsm porno and some convoluted philosophy that I can't get my heaad around. It needs a second reading.
