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I have a new love affair - with Wolfmother! They. Are. Awesome. ^ - ^I've been studying for practice exams, not as hard as I should be but more than is absolutely necessary. I think it's a nice balance. *dancing away to pounding Aussie rock music* Damn, Wolfmother are good. A "sprawling beast" is how they describe themselves, and it seems pretty apt.
To continue, and enscribe some thoughts which have been bouncing around inside my head (surely these things pester everyone) on the nature of reality. Kind of a big topic, I know. In fact, that's what I've been wondering about: when does it become too big? When can't you handle it any more? And why on earth do we feel that that point could ever come? Why is it that wise men and women have said for centuries that we must think of others' happiness before we can truly enjoy our own, and yet we find it so hard to do just that?
In one of the short stories we studied this year Owen Marshall says 'there is no dichotomy of flesh and spirit when you are young'. It almost seems to me that as we grow there evolves a seperate split, not between body and mind but between 'you' as you think of yourself and 'you' as you really are; between the person you want to be, and the person your actions cast you as.
Why is it that when we feel we are good, we somehow lose our innocence? Why is ignorant beauty more pure than the beauty of the aware?
Why does having someone to beat lead you to justify more actions than you would otherwise? Does competition inspire negative degradation or positive delusion; or, perhaps, positive truth? (I would add in 'negative truth' for matters of symmetry, but the existence of that is so obvious it probably doesn't even need acknowledgement.) :P
I don't have answers for those, not yet, and there is a part of me that never wants to. I like the idea of open-ended questions. They're food for thought.
Hope you're having a good time out there, wherever you are.
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