I miss going on train-of-thought excursions through my blog. It's a fun exercise that I don't really do anymore, and it might be because some of the passions I had while at Stonehill aren't with me now. I thought about the most important things I learned in college, and read how into the idea of students leading the learning charge I was, and then thought if I actually felt that passionately anymore.
Spoiler alert - I don't. Which is totally okay with me, because I'm not at Stonehill living this out every day. I'm not talking about these ideas with five different people a week, and I'm not blogging about it. One of the first dogmas of how to read college literature that I learned was to always be cognizant of the position in time/history the author is coming from. Particularly relevant in whatever 14th-century Chaucer I may or may not have read for reasons I cannot recall, but I remember the idea being important.
So I think about this idea a little more, and this is totally a thing. Everything that we encounter in our life has a time chart of what it means to us. Ideals we hold to be true, relationships with people, motivations for us getting out of bed in the morning...all of these change over time. (Aside - do we change over time? I've always thought not, but if everything about us is changing, is it possible for us to remain the same in the midst of it?) People we lose touch with, beliefs we have, there are ideal times for us to have those in our lives, and there are less-than-ideal times. That, I believe, is a driving force of why we fall in and out of relationships and struggle (or find it easy) to believe in God. Or even fail to blog as often as much.
So, just a thought. Being at a great place in your life can have many different meanings. It might be because the universe is throwing a fastball down the middle of the plate. Swing away.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
One thing
Some Wednesday night thoughts after a ride from Watertown to Quincy spent listening to The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place...
Does there exist this idea that people hold one thing in such high a light that no one else can break the connection between any given person and their one thing? I'm trying to think of a better word than 'thing' but it really could be anything.
I don't mean the connection between two people. Such connections can certainly be strong, but also broken. These are also shared among two people. What I'm hoping to find holds true for an individual person, and their relationship with this one thing cannot be altered by another person.
For me, and if you've read any decent number of my blog posts (or know anything about me), it's the connection I have with The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place. It's gotten to the point where I'm past thinking I need to link to previous blog posts to show how much that album means to me, and that's saying a lot.
It's more than a musical connection. Sure, I know what notes to expect and I could probably hum my way through the entire album without listening to it. But it's not about that. The 43 minutes I spend listening to that album are 43 minutes where I feel grounded, and feel my place in the universe, however small it may be.
My best guess is that for a majority of people, this 'one thing' is likely their religion. Their belief in a capital-g God (or another religion's applicable equivalent) isn't something that will be changed by another person. This connection is something that you'll always have with you, almost like it's riding shotgun to your entire life - sometimes dormant, other times incredibly prevalent and relevant.
I'm not done with this idea. As an aside, I should really start keeping track of these personal-life principles I seem to be collecting. In fact, I might have already tried that idea...I would say that this blog post is as close as I've come to doing so. (For the record, the second principle in that blog post is now called the Face Value Theory, where after about two years we really see what the true (face) value of someone really is.)
Only because of the song title, here's "One Thing" by Finger Eleven. Thanks for reading.
Does there exist this idea that people hold one thing in such high a light that no one else can break the connection between any given person and their one thing? I'm trying to think of a better word than 'thing' but it really could be anything.
I don't mean the connection between two people. Such connections can certainly be strong, but also broken. These are also shared among two people. What I'm hoping to find holds true for an individual person, and their relationship with this one thing cannot be altered by another person.
For me, and if you've read any decent number of my blog posts (or know anything about me), it's the connection I have with The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place. It's gotten to the point where I'm past thinking I need to link to previous blog posts to show how much that album means to me, and that's saying a lot.
It's more than a musical connection. Sure, I know what notes to expect and I could probably hum my way through the entire album without listening to it. But it's not about that. The 43 minutes I spend listening to that album are 43 minutes where I feel grounded, and feel my place in the universe, however small it may be.
My best guess is that for a majority of people, this 'one thing' is likely their religion. Their belief in a capital-g God (or another religion's applicable equivalent) isn't something that will be changed by another person. This connection is something that you'll always have with you, almost like it's riding shotgun to your entire life - sometimes dormant, other times incredibly prevalent and relevant.
I'm not done with this idea. As an aside, I should really start keeping track of these personal-life principles I seem to be collecting. In fact, I might have already tried that idea...I would say that this blog post is as close as I've come to doing so. (For the record, the second principle in that blog post is now called the Face Value Theory, where after about two years we really see what the true (face) value of someone really is.)
Only because of the song title, here's "One Thing" by Finger Eleven. Thanks for reading.
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