An important conversation that I had with a good friend just a minute ago has got me thinking about the way I perceive the past and the future.
I look back to last semester and see how awesome it was: the joy of making new friends, becoming familiar with Belmont, exploring Nashville...
I look to the future and see the exciting possibilities of staying in Nashville for the summer, studying abroad, graduation, perhaps graduate school, and a job that I like...
Yet, I sit here in the present doing homework, managing my responsibilities, solving my problems, and completing all matter of dull-yet-necessary daily tasks, all the while trying to have quality time with God, friends, and myself. In reality, these are things that I do every day of my life, yet when I think about the past and the future, I romanticize them so much that they blur into an seemingly effortless stream of existence.
I forget that regardless of how great last semester was overall, I still had days where I had to sit down and make myself write papers, read for class, and reflect on previous lectures while studying.
I forget that however bright my future looks, I will still do laundry and dishes.
Over the past few months I have improved at living in the present, but now I feel the challenge not only to live in the present, but to enjoy it - even the mundane building blocks of each day, whether they are work or play. I want to find an attitude in which I can look back and remember the normalcy of everyday life among the good times and the bad times.
"...another critique is that people in these radical subcultures do normal stuff, too. Punk kids sit around and eat cookies with their parents on Christmas, just like everyone else. They go to the store and get groceries, too." -my Popular Culture professor
Life is good - the good, the bad, and everything normal in between. It's God's gift to you and me.
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If it makes you feel any better, there are theories that state that there is no such thing as temporal movement. (Logically think, what is the speed of time? There is no meaningful answer, because you could say sixty seconds to a minute, which would come out as one, which is a meaningless answer to that question. Somehow, out of that, people logically believe that there is no temporal movement)
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