My Thoughts on One "Various Subject"

"If a man would register all his opinions upon love, religion, learning, ect. beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last."

Ha! I went through and picked one that no one else picked so far. If I find that someone else decides to do it later I will be bummed. But let's get down to business here shall we?

So first I looked at this epigram and decided what it was saying. It talks about how significantly our perspective changes throughout our life. You begin thinking one thing and often times you end your life looking at it from the completly opposite direction. Love, religion, and learning are pretty much the most important topics in society and everyone forms opinions on these things. So inorder to really understand what it was saying I applied it to myself. I am hopefully (knock on wood) not to close to the end of my time so I don't really have the full spectrum of this nailed down but I can see the changes in my views throughout the short time I have been here.

When you're young boys are icky, and they have cooties and then as you get older they become your friends and you hang out with them enough to realize that cooties aren't to bad. Then *GASP* you find that boys are kinda cute and maybe cooties aren't a bad thing at all.

When I was little I just went to church with my parents because they told me too. I believed what they believed because my parents are the smartest people in the world right? As I got older I took responsibility for what I was being taught in church and formed my own opinions regardless of the view my parents thought on things. The older I get the more clear and separated my religion is from my parents, I assume that will continue.

I hated school as a little kid. I got yelled at all the time for day dreaming and they had to put an egg timer on my desk to keep my focused. If I didn't get done before the timer went off I got serious punishment (we were big fans of punishment at my elementary) blah blah middle ground.... Now I really actually like school (NERD! I know) I love learning. School is a lot of work but I really like getting up every day knowing I will be educated.

So this is way longer then I anticipated but hey, extra work is cool right?