Comments | flippingrim: So, I've been thinking,..

flippingrim

So, I've been thinking,..

Dec 06, 2008 23:43

I should post here at least once or sometime and that I should check up more often on the friends I have but never see, Jami, Kasey, Bobby, Virginia, whoever. I don't know what to say or write anymore. I'm sorry... maybe. God knows all my friends don't care or abide by sorry. Even though it is true. Sorry I didn't call you when you had surgery ( Read more... )

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"Enlightenment" from all these years of college... _rayman_ December 7 2008, 20:39:18 UTC

I wouldn't be too down if you feel like all of this learning we have done has been some sort of waste. I think the most important things I have gotten out of college through all of those countless hours of study is not so much how much I have learned and know, but that there is so much more that I DON"T know.

Re: "Enlightenment" from all these years of college... flippingrim December 10 2008, 02:46:25 UTC

Isn't that one of the steps to enlightenment? If it isn't, it is, at least, a very wise statement, Andy. It's not about the knowledge I've attained or, in my case, not attained of a subject, say English, but my failure to gain any true self knowledge. The real kicker about it all is I can debate and think about whatever it is I'm going to do, but the truth is my actions seem almost predetermined. It maybe isn't the lack of self-knowledge, because I know I'm a lazy douche, but the knowledge I'm not who I want to be. I think that's a continual battle, always improving. I just don't feel like I've made any real steps to attaining the self I want to be. I'm not sure any of that made sense.

Re: "Enlightenment" from all these years of college... _rayman_ December 10 2008, 03:08:54 UTC

Nah, haha. It makes perfect sense. In my opinion, there are very few people who truly find self identity at our age, and that's not a bad thing. I just remind myself that I have a long life ahead of me, full of the good and the bad times, and maybe it's only through those experiences that I will discover how to improve and discover myself and what my limits are. I mean, at this point in my life it feels like I am on the right track to a career that I am going to enjoy, but who knows, two years into it, I may decide this job, even this career, isn't for me.

one_moretime December 14 2008, 03:11:57 UTC

i've missed you immensely the entire time you've been in auburn. not having you & darrell has been hard for me - i've always felt like you guys cared & understood me more than most people i've met in life. i hope you know that even though we go months without talking (even though i just texted you :) ) i think about you all the time. & it scares the shit out of me to think that one day you won't be back in birmingham so i can keep you up all night talking about absolutely nothing.

elmoreoocyte December 14 2008, 04:09:09 UTC

"I'm no closer to enlightenment or true "self-knowledge" than I've ever been."

I debated a little what to say to this for a couple of days. That one sentence pretty much sums it up, because I've said nearly the same thing when asked by people what I learned in college. Ignorance is bliss.

People say I know a lot. Those people either know very little, or know very little of me. I'm more a polymath than a genius. Hell, I just misspelled "genius" AND "misspelled."

Basically, I could have left it at your own quotation. I'm drinking, so I'm moved to leave it at two links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_jefferson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin