"Every now and then take a look at something not made by human hands -- a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you the solace, and above all, the reassurance that you are not alone in the world."
-- Sidney Lovett
So, I spent the last fourteen minutes building up this page because I had something really important to rant about.
And then I forgot about what that was...oops. So I suppose I'll just touch on a few random thoughts.
This blog is about me, the world, you, and how we all relate. I want to discuss the way we live today, and why things are the way they are. I want to know why I feel to strange sometimes, living in a place where little seems to make sense, but people somehow know exactly what they're doing. I want to just sit and wonder...and you're now privy to my thoughts. If you like them, that's wonderful! If not, then I'm just going to type until life makes sense (Bill Gates' philosophy??)
This is about what happens when you get turned outside in. When the environment around you affects you as a person so strongly that you are as much a part of it as the air. When your thoughts aren't dictated by other people, but how you feel about what you percieve. When you invite the wild inside instead of trying to keep it hidden. When you feel like you have a reason to be here.
That's outside in.
Sometimes I think I should have been born a few decades earlier than I was. People tell me I'm old at heart, wise of mind. Friends think I'm just saying that because I have an unfortunate affinity for older men. You can decide. I think it's a combination of both.
I'm the kind of young person that is getting harder and harder to find these days. I am perfectly content to sit outside with a book and a mug of tea for hours. I love nothing more than to explore. I prefer an honest person and an acoustic guitar to a spray-painted mannequin with a recording studio. That was kind of harsh. But I appreciate music at it's rawest and it's most refined -- two things I think are very closely related.
One thing that I love to ponder is the relationship between the natural environment and human art. If you think about it, most stories, songs, paintings, sculptures, and movies are based on the most complex and interesting thing we know of; the world around us. Like music, it's raw and it's refined, a neverending set of paradoxes.
Whoa, whoa, whoa...I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me back up a bit.
If you can't tell, I'm a bit of a hippie. But not in a radical, replace-chainsaws-with-bunnies kind of way. I understand that we can't just stop everything and live off the land; it's gone way beyond that now. We've made the world ten times more complex that it was before we so-called "tamed" it. But more of that in later posts.
Like I said, I feel I'm part of a dying breed of young person. But, fortunately, I've come to the right place. I currently attend Trent University, where the few of us can still congregate to ponder, explore, play guitar, and drink copious amounts of fair trade organic coffee.
I personally have a little bit of experience in writing. I haven't really blogged much, but I've written a novel and a half, a whole lot of fanfiction, a few scripts, and many, many short stories. Writing lets me be me. Especially when I forget who "me" is. I don't know as of yet if writing will take me anywhere, career-wise. We shall see.
As for now, I'm going to keep pursuing my bachelor degree in Environmental Science and Studies. And keep pondering.
I'll leave you with an image of the Otonabee River I took not to long ago.
Get out and enjoy that spring air!
- C
Monday, March 15, 2010
Inaugural Post!
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environmental,
hippy,
spring,
trent university,
university,
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