I was talking with a friend (and therapist) of mine Dr. Nate Wilson yesterday. He helped me out last year when I was having (big) problems with anxiety and stress, anyway we meet now every so often just to touch base and flap the jaws etc. He's really cool. So we were discussing something along the lines of where you are when you begin to realize you are in control of your life, and then you have to practice getting used to it, and then one day you realize...holy cow, I'm in control of my life. It's a good feeling.
It brings me to mention a book I pick up from time to time titled -On Becoming A Person- by Carl Rogers. If you dont know of him he is sometimes considered the founder or leader of humanistic psychotherapy. A wondeful man, and he passed on a few years ago. (sad) The gist of the book is that forming an identity and understanding of yourself and life is a process that is never complete. Each moment contributes, but never finalizes, the process of "becoming a person" that person, human, that is, culminating at the moment your earthly body dies.Of course no one knows what happens after that, but perhaps your own ideas of what happens after earthly death is also a part of the becoming, because it may directly affect how you live your life. I believe that, at least.(and this is my website so I can say that...hah) Last year Nate asked me "do you have faith?" and my reply then was "faith in what"....now I would say yes, I do, but theres no way to describe it..it's also a process I think, a feeling-out, and I just never knew how to consider it before -
Welp, was that good and heavy or what?
On a lighter note. My friends Joseph and Zach are going to Snowshoe this weekend for some serious downhill mountain biking...upon request my camera is going with them, so either Jo or I will have some EXCELLENT pictures up later next week, if the camera makes it back....that is. And he's in the process of building a site of his own...I've been having fun with this one.
Oh yea, I was made aware of the need for correction to my July 27 entry about laughing, I posted the correction on the comment page.
Also, new quotes are up, check em out.
Then I went to the Ed.bld and wrote my response paper for Sociology and in reading the article I came across a really good quote...I'm creating a quote of the day page so check it out if you have the chance, also, if anyone ever has something they want on here email me...I'd love any input...and if something from this site "disappears," check the link page, I'll probably start overlapping things through links there at some point. I'm not sure how many pages I can have?
anyway, so THEN on the drive home I passed a car with a bumper sticker that said:
"Mt. Holyoke College"...I haven't looked it up online, I imagine it has religious affiliation, but since I had plenty of time to ponder it I starting thinking about how many different ways it could be pronounced....the first (my fav) was "holy okie", then "whole yoke", then of course "holy oak"...all those said really fast like they were one word...hah..
(disclaimer: I have a 1.5hr commute every morning, and every evening...it's my understanding that this sort of brain drift is ok, maybe even healthy! ..what's REALLY bad are those people who have bumper stickers with a bizillion sentences of information and you KNOW it might be funny and you wish like heck you could read it! but, you can't, it's too small b/c theres TOO MUCH mumbo jumbo...I mean, c'mon now)
PS. (a few hrs later) I just came in from a road ride, check out the gnats...and I WAS wearing a jersey...they were on my back too...how? (and what a horrible way to die! ugh!)...living way down yonder on the chattahoochee can be a pain, literally...gnat swarms sho dont feel good at 20mph
so my sociology exam2 is officially under the belt...it was, I believe, a doozie (how do you spell that anyway?) Before heading back to home base I'm fiddling with this web thing and trying to make it more manageable...emphasis on "trying"
one of my bro's friends handed-me-down his starbucks card with about $10 left on it (sweet) needless to say my recent savings strategy has made it a long-lasting ten bucks...I have recycled my tall coffee cup for 3 days now --yea yea, I usually try to rinse it out...anyway, with a "refill" a tall coffee is 52 cents...the same goes if you bring in your own cup...how many ppl actually do that? seems like a perk (hah, no pun intended) for broke college students like myself...unfortunatly this morning on the way to the test my recycled cup sprung a leak at the top of the seam...lucky for my addiction it wasn't a content damaging incident...post-test: the cup was tossed into it's trashcan grave on my way out of the Adderhold bldg...man o man, I'm outta here...there is a bike in need of excercise at home and no rain (yet) ....y'all have a great day-o
Just finished taking my Research Methods exam (#2)...that class is SO dull even the professor cringes...I mean, seriously, Jane Eyre was more interesting.
anyway, the day seems to be going well--I'm leaving my last class early to make it back to Columbus in time to vote and meeting a friend for coffee...no tests tomorrow so I can hopefully have some play time. Yay :)
well the weekend is finally over...Friday afternoon Mattie and I left for SC. It was almost like Christmas there since the entire family happened to be in the area on the same weekend-->Jackie and Rick flew in from El Paso last week. I had an offer from Robin to join him and Andy at the Dave Matthews concert Saturday night--even with a shorterthanusual concert and EXTREMELY expensive beer we had an awesome time. Sunday was the usual dinner at Nana's and some sunning at Sheilas later before heading back to south GA. On the drive home we were frequented with some serious t-storms Fun fun--there should be some new pics posted by tomorrow.
But I'm tired, so this one is short-
Today mom and I visited the First Presbyterian Church near our home in Columbus (<--my going-on 4yr home-town) I was really pleased with the service, might go back again next week if I'm in town.
Did some riding around C-town and Phenix City with good friend o'mine Mike Mahoney, then snagged Joseph to make a trio trip to the movies...saw 'Anchorman'...and we each gave it two thumbs and two big toes up.
oh yea, in case you forgot, elections are coming up...excercise your rights as a citizen of this wonderful country, research your candidates, cast an educated vote -
Sleep is now definitly in order...the commute begins at 0800--that's 5hrs from where I am
peace Out