Rebellion Happens in the Mind: 01/01/2011

January 31, 2011

Knowledge in Parts

I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel which is my student loans. It's good to see, because as soon as they're paid off, I'm going to start saving for my trip to Japan. I still haven't decided whether I want to go to Hokkaido or Tokyo. My BFF Lee and I have wanted to go to Japan together since we were in middle school, so I'm really excited. I just hope I don't look like a gaijin.

I lost the book I was reading, The Ruins. It was about a million times better than the movie, but I was getting kind of bored with it. Still, I'd like to finish it. You know how most horror movies involve 'twenty minutes with jerks'? Well, this was a whole book full of jerks (and idiots), except for the hot German guy.

I miss my kitty. I hate leaving him. He is so happy every time I come home and seems so surprised every time I leave. I can't wait to be able to come home to him every night.

I have completely busted my diet this weekend. OH WELL. I'll get back to it next weekend. I can't during the week since I have to eat camp food. Mike and I will have to come up with something awesome to cook.

From "The Irrational Season" by Madeleine L'Engle

But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take…It is indeed a fearful gamble…Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.