So I just found out that my parents-in-law are getting us a french bulldog! I am so stinking excited.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
A dog in the near future!
A thought on life...
I just went out with Melanie and watched confessions of a shopaholic. Surprisingly, the movie was great. It led me to some self reflection as we were driving home, mainly because the parents of the main character were so much like my own. My parents are very frugal in the way they conduct their financial affairs. Garage sales supplied me with my clothes, duct tape was frequently seen in repairs all over the house, the heater has never been turned on instead loads of wood would be put into the fireplace etc. These types of things were extremely embarrassing to me when I was young. I remember my friends would come over and make mocking remarks about our families decision to not spend money the way their families did. How glad I am now that I was sheltered from the world of showing off your wealth. It's so sad that so many people measure their worth, their success, and their happiness on material possessions. The father in the movie said it best what he said the only things in his life that defines him is his wife and his daughter. A person's house, car, clothes or anything like that do not describe the quality of their life. There is so much more to life than that. Don't go into debt, instead invest time into those things that really do define a person.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Specialization Leading to Cultural Atrophy
I read an interesting quote this week:
"Poetry of many kinds gave me great pleasure, and even as a school boy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."
Charles Darwin
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