Today i thought:
last December was the month that brought me closer then ever to my twenty first birthday. And the closer i get, the more i feel like i cannot move. The responsibilities and expectations never said but always noticed seemed to hover over my cloud of thoughts. Recently, i have found out that am not the thrifty shopper that i thought i was,and saving money is a necessity in this economy which i seem to have taken for granted. I am so thankful to GOD to have money to spend despite what the economy may be saying.
Today in world literature:
world literature is my only artsy class this semester and i am quite excited to dive into the class and start the assigned readings. The enlightenment aka the neoclassical aka the age of reason was the topic today. The age where the english started to lean towards the "common sense" described by the famous John Locke. This made me think and ask questions like: Did people from the preceding era, which by the way was the renaissance, lack common sense. Also the famous Issac newton was from this era, the era where the scientific empirical method was revived. A method that was based more on facts than traditional beliefs. The best part of the class today were these two lines from couplet by A.Pope, which says:
"True wit is nature to advantage dressed"
"what oft was though, but ne'er so well expressed"
At the end of the professor's explanation , i had gotten a totally new view of these lines of poetry that looked nothing more that ill placed words. This was what i had gotten.True knowledge is when we take what is often thought about(said and done) and then dress it in a new light. Yet, no matter how many times it is thought about it will never be well expressed because there is something new to always dress it in that will give it an advantage. Take for instance the remake of Sherlock Holmes(adore the movie by the way).
As always live life righteously.
