:: I was tagged by CW to post 3 positive things, for 7 days, and to tag people along the way. Kind of like a Pay It Forward Positivity Initiative. (Mine may take the form of gratitude.) + Today Im tagging En Es and Red Jessup. Yesterday got away from me, oops. Day Two.... Ready? Go! 1.) I love my mom. There are so many ways, in which, she raised me objectively. I think this is a rare position for a parent to have. She never judged me, or tried to make me what she thought I should be. I cant even say that I ever recall her having any set ideas of what she wanted for me, other than for me to be happy. I live my life in direct accordance with so many of her little adages. I am thankful for who she is and wouldnt have wanted to grow up any other way. 2.) I love Heidi. We are partners in every sense of the word. There are ways in which we blend, nearly indistinguishable. There are many more ways in which we are very much individuals that just happen to fit. There are very few people in this world, I feel I can go to with anything -- albeit it their personal defensiveness, or my own -- Heidi is different. I value every single day spent in it together. 3.) I am a hard determinist, philosophically speaking. I mean, there are other beliefs, I hold, that fit into other categories, I suppose. But, what Im getting at is.... I do not believe in free will. I do not believe it is possible in any sense of the word. A lot of people find this to be a very dark or scary prospect, whereas I find awe in the chaos.. in the way things, quite literally, unfold. I remember a few years back, when I was taking a college course called Theory of Personality through the Psychology department at CSCC. My professor was Dr. Carolyn Kaufman (who has since, unexpectedly, passed on). We had reached a section covering dispositions, where she said, Spiritual people are considered to be optimistic, whereas atheists are considered to be pessimistic, and my hand shot up. I explained how, If anything, it takes more optimism to be atheist and still find beauty in this world, and her eyes lit up. She was religious (in a sense), but like myself, loved discourse. She wound up changing the lecture material after talking. I am grateful for discourse. I absolutely thrive in college for this reason exactly. I have arrived at many of my beliefs through college discourse. While Im enjoying my forced sabbatical, I cannot wait to get back into classes to nerd it up.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:08:15 +0000
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