Blogging. I've always
admired those who were able to keep up a blog, not to mention when they were
able to capture attention, hooking any reader. But anytime I considered making
one, my mind instantly rebuked the thought. What interest would my life be to
anyone? What insight could I give? I'm not even that humorous, however much I
try.
In spite of all that, here
I am, writing my first blog post. And what finally got me to start? Well, to be
honest, an assignment for my Latin American Humanities class at Brigham Young
University. Yes I know, I'm so courageous, finally starting a blog merely because
if I didn't I would fail. I’m extremely excited about it though, for multiple
reasons:
- As said before, I've always wanted to start a blog
- I’ll actually have readers, even if they don't necessarily want to
- This blog serves in the place of big papers and projects, which rocks
- I love studying humanities and can't wait to learn more about Latin America
The purpose of the blog is to write
about an idea or quote I found interesting in the class readings and examine,
compare, think critically about it, etc. So that will be the basis of this blog,
although I may decide to include other random posts that don’t have to do with class.
We will see. J
To start off, I read in Octavio
Paz’s “Dialectic of Solitude” this quote: “To live is to be separated from what
we were in order to approach what we are going to be in the mysterious future.”
This statement immediately
caught my attention. The fact that we cannot live a full life without
change, without becoming a completely different person, is sometimes
intimidating. But then as I think more about how much I have changed just
in the last three months, it makes complete sense. No one would be
able to live even one week without coming upon some event that changed
something about their character. In fact, it would be very hard to NOT become a
person very much different from a few years earlier.
I also love the term used to
describe our future. Mysterious is a wonderful word; it implies adventure and
climax. What a promising future that is! I personally cannot wait to find out what
lies ahead for me, but then of course once I do find out, it will no longer be my
future any more. Here’s to the fantastic stories that lie in wait, ready for us
to live them.
