:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Sunday, September 28, 2003 ::

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"
-- Douglas Noel Adams

I'm taking a class on Thus Spoke Zarathustra this quarter. Its really strange because Zarathustra was probably the first philosophical text I ever bought. It was the first book I would comb through over and over looking for the truths I missed the reading before. I would bite off pages in small chunks and pretend I understood it. I would swallow sections somehow coming away with my own interpretations. Maybe it wasn't a good book for me to be reading in the mindset I was in, the environment wasn't exactly the safest to be realizing that man was not an end but a bridge. But I think it was good, it instigated that desire to not be understood, it infected me with a passion to push limits; and at 14/15/16 thats about as deep as one can get; no one could expect much more than a passion to exisit as an individual. It seems fitting that i'm now forced to go back over all those misunderstandings and rewrite my interpretations just to see what comes up. Maybe it will point me in a new direction--I just hope it will be as interesting as the one i've been coming from.

:: Jim Nichols 9/28/2003 06:04:00 PM [+] ::
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