Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Society Through the Eyes of a Freshman

This is my first post with some meaning behind it and I plan to waste no time of the readers. That is if I actually have any. My mind works in impulsive and creative ways, its hard to explain why I follow my impulses, maybe it is the result of the many passions I have in this world. I love money, but not for its monetary value. I love helping others but not because it makes me feel accomplished. I love academia, but hate that it is embedded into our lives only for structured success. I can go on forever and each impulse, each passion, will lessen but never leave my mind or body.

To start off, I take enjoyment in occasionally partaking in "recreational activities" with my friends. In no way do I advocate such behavior, but I feel these activities open my mind to a higher level of thinking, almost an enlightening for a higher purpose. Many of my friends either call me wise or way gone for my unique ability to rationalize, dissect, conceptualize, and abstractly convey ideas of the patterns of life and society. Over time, however, through observations, my friends have slowly kind of wanted to get "enlightened" with me maybe just so they can hear what crazy things I would say. Maybe they are not so crazy. By no means am I intelligent in respect to some of the young minds I have already met in academia. Just by conversing and seeing the drive of some of my peers to excel in the world of science and mathematics is mind blowing. But I have realized these people lack a sense of surrounding, lack the ability to easily fit and adapt. The respect I have for my peers is greater that can be abstractly explained. Yet, they fit the mold of society like an enzyme binding to a receptor. A receptor that has a specific shape only meant for that person. Why is this so? Why do civilizations disappear? Why do people shoot others? Somehow I feel like I am obligated to share what is running through my mind when I am "enlightened", opening some minds in the process.

So from now on I will only write in this respected blog when I have been "enlightened". I will continue this blog until the purpose is fulfilled.