Process

I realized as i was reading James' blog that i've been writing a lot about school. Which isn't that exciting if you think about it. Half the people in the US have been to college and probably didn't write about it half as much as i have. While i was thinking this, another thought popped into my head about the movie i watched last night, "Stranger than Fiction" (i recommend seeing it).

Harold Crick is a man living and breathing yet someone is writing a book about his life... and the author wants to kill him off- unfortunately he hears her narrating and becomes most distressed...I won't ruin anything for you- but there's a line in the movie that has been in my head ever since, "Harold starting doing things he had never done before, he started living his life."

This quote brings me back to my thoughts about writing about school. The point of these years isn't to get a degree- but to learn. Me going to school and then straight to work and squeezing my friends and homework in there isn't the point of my college years... i'm running myself into the ground to try to have some sort of social aspect of life because i know there needs to be more to life than school and work.

And while the friends next to me were wondering if they should buy a guitar so they can have sex.... i was wondering- Am I Living My Life? God wants us to have fun as well, i figure. He didn't create us to be hermits who do nothing but work and work. But to live my life is to get a tattoo, to buy a fish, to listen to the music that excites you, to move out, to get married, to experience God, to love people.

I just hope i can do all those things and more before i find myself lying on my death bed.