Quote Of The Day: "Into the depths of madness we go, never stopping to consider if its healthy. We know only that we must and that are other concerns are tantamount to knowledge." ~Anonymous
I gotta say, that anonymous guy is 100 times popular than any other auhtor out there, must be gettin buko royalties by now. Dont ask me what exactly that means, kinda got to assume it was directed at something specific but I think we might garner from it that there is a point at which wanting something badly, something of a nature like knowledge, leads to insanity and obessesion and thats not always a bad thing. But take from it what you will.
So have I mentioned how much I hate my job lately? Its not really the work itself precisely, though that is a part of it, its more the enviroment and the ideals behind the work. To a lesser degree its some of the people involved with that work but not so much as past jobs. The principals behind it are simple, its greed and worse yet its greed hidden behind this mask of idealism that attempts to justify itself through things like "...we are providing quality customer service to our client and its customers, thereby providing and atmosphere of quality satisfaction.". I hate everything about that statement because it takes something that is horrible and ugly and tries to justify and make it beautiful, for me all it does is further prove that it is so horrible and so ugly that not even clever words and incredible stretches of justification cant help its image. But what can I say? Its corporate America, corporate any coutnry really but this is the one I live in so I have a better understanding of this one. Yeah im a conservative but I dont hold true to that label 100% of the time. Not overly fond of liberals and their ideals that they have this outlook that makes for a more moral and "equal" world but I'm not fond of the rampant greed that is so obviously seen in the conservative groups, (liberals have that greed to but they dont show it as well as the conservatives).
Lips, buddy, I know exactly how you feel. Its hard to balance school, work, and a social life, especially when you want the social part of it more than anything else somedays. Kidna wish I could honestly say that somehow I know its gonna get better and that all you have to do is be patient but I dont really believe that and im not one to say things I dont believe in unless im at work. I think that part of the reason we feel so.......shall we say frustrated and bound by our social situation is that somewhere we got the idea that this "social" promiscuity and need for a constant companion of a romantic nature is the norm. I'm not saying its not but I am saying that its possible that this is just an idea that was somehow ingrained into us perhaps by society or our own idealism and that with enough effort and concentration we can push past it or at least hold it off for the time being. I'd like to be more help here but unfortunately its something we all just have to hope gets better or solves itself and there is no garuntee of either happening.
So I was re-thinking my goal in life last night and im proud to say that I still very very much want to be a professor of Creative Writing and English Literature as well as a writer. Well to be hoenst I am a writer, just not a widely known one yet. I was thinking about what I might tell my students, other than the mechanics of both subjects, and I think that its important that I be honest with them. What would I tell a student who wants to be a writer for a career? Do it, if you think you have something to offer a large audience that would ensnare their minds and keep their eyes on your pages then by all means go for it but realize that every year the writers audience gets shorter and its becoming very competitive for readers among writers these days and you should have a secondary career that makes you just as happy with life. Ultimately if you write one poem then your already a writer but the true difference in what most people consider to be a writer is that the popular definition is a writer who writes then shares his or her writings with the world in an open and readily accessible forum by anyone who cares to read your work. The other type of writer is the one who writes and never shares it, there is nothing wrong with that and sometimes some things arent meant to be shared they are merely meant to be written and brought to life on a page.
To a literature student what would I say? Well literature isnt so much about reading and memorizing facts about authors dead and alive, its more about reading anything you can get your hands on and considering its various meanings. Why was it written? Who wrote it? What type of person were they? When did they write it? How long did it take them to write it? Did they want to write it or did they NEED to write it? Did have a point, if so what, if not then why write it? Did they believe what they wrote? Did they have anything to gain by writing it? Was there a risk in writing it? Is it acceptable for the time it was written in? What sex was the writer? What is the auhtors race? Did either of the previous questions have any bearing on what they wrote? Were they writing it for someone? Who were they writing it for? Was the author religious? Did that have any bearing on the writing? These are important questions because the better you understand the answers then the better you understand the writing itself and the many motivations behind it. Well thats it for now.
SVS
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