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This last week was an interesting one, spent in Kill Devil Hills on the Outer Banks on North Carolina. Any time I spend a week in either end of the state I come back profoundly changed. I wasn't even expecting it this time either, but after talks about spirituality, philosophy and life on the beach at night, driving to the hospital at 3:30 am, a lively and sometimes tense car ride, and repeated encounters with a rottweiler named Guinness, I've come back molded into another shape once again.
I won't go into the details of the whole week, there are just way too many to be contained in a single post. But I'll post a couple of thoughts/decisions/insights that I've gleaned recently:
-I will never, ever, ever be perfect. Not even close. No one will be, and there could never be a perfectly utopian world. That's because concepts such as perfection and utopia imply that there's some sort of bar that needs to be reached; meaning that there's this mountain that one needs to climbed until they get to the top, which is perfection, utopia, or what have you. But then what happens? What do you do with perfection once it's attained? Is it just a holding pattern, this long plateau of blissful tedium after the climb upwards? I don't think so, because I think that perfectability is a limitless concept. In other words, possibilities are endless. Really. Again, not enough space here to go into this, and I could ramble on about this forever (because after all, there are no limits, right?) Just think about it.
-I've learned to accept who I am. I almost typed the word "role" in there, but I think that's a poor word choice. "Role" implies some sort of limits or a too-narrow attempt at defining a person. What I'm saying is that I've learned to accept my strengths, accept my weaknesses, and at the same time not by limited by either.
-I have no use for drugs or alcohol. Although I've never really been into either, I've always wavered from making a firm statement on it. Now I'm not afraid to.
Of course there are more nuggets of "wisdom" that I could spew out, but I'll give it a rest for now. It's a beautiful night, and it's the last one before work and summer classes start, so we damn well better enjoy it.
I won't go into the details of the whole week, there are just way too many to be contained in a single post. But I'll post a couple of thoughts/decisions/insights that I've gleaned recently:
-I will never, ever, ever be perfect. Not even close. No one will be, and there could never be a perfectly utopian world. That's because concepts such as perfection and utopia imply that there's some sort of bar that needs to be reached; meaning that there's this mountain that one needs to climbed until they get to the top, which is perfection, utopia, or what have you. But then what happens? What do you do with perfection once it's attained? Is it just a holding pattern, this long plateau of blissful tedium after the climb upwards? I don't think so, because I think that perfectability is a limitless concept. In other words, possibilities are endless. Really. Again, not enough space here to go into this, and I could ramble on about this forever (because after all, there are no limits, right?) Just think about it.
-I've learned to accept who I am. I almost typed the word "role" in there, but I think that's a poor word choice. "Role" implies some sort of limits or a too-narrow attempt at defining a person. What I'm saying is that I've learned to accept my strengths, accept my weaknesses, and at the same time not by limited by either.
-I have no use for drugs or alcohol. Although I've never really been into either, I've always wavered from making a firm statement on it. Now I'm not afraid to.
Of course there are more nuggets of "wisdom" that I could spew out, but I'll give it a rest for now. It's a beautiful night, and it's the last one before work and summer classes start, so we damn well better enjoy it.
posted by Justin @ 11:00 PM
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