Purposeful Practice Directs you towards Perfection, Right?

...Well, that's what I'm thinking anyway. Dr. Simons said that the best writers write every day, and for longer periods of time than what I think anyone really should, unless you're a writer I guess. But my purpose is not to just write garbage everyday, even though that's what it might end up being to some people, but I want to apply what I learned in class, and that is to be specific, concrete and sensual. So, if I'm not doing that and you notice that or can't understand what I'm saying, then let me know. But if you're just reading it wimsically and don't understand it, then don't say anything. I believe that readers have the responsibility to focus and try to understand the best they can what the writer is trying to say. Some things will be more difficult to understand if they are deeper or more abstract, but other things are just difficult to understand because the writer didn't do a a good job of communicating the idea. So yeah, if you stumble across anything you don't understand, then tell me specifically what it was. Of course, you only have to do this if you feel like it. I guess most likely I wouldn't do it for someone else if I were just casually reading their blog, but if you're in the mood, go ahead. I don't need a one page resonse. A one or two sentence reply will suffice.

So I figured I'll free write for about thirty or minutes or so. I wanna do my best, but I'm not gonna put more time into writing than developing my spiritual life through prayer and studying the Bible. I guess the only way I'll get to write more is if I spend more time developing myslef. Ok, and to qualify my reasoning, I don't believe that I can't spend more time doing something else other than developing my spiritual life if it outlasts it, it's just that this is personal development. And not that personal development, or writing is meaningless, I just think that it shouldn't be a higher priority than feeding myself the words God has spoken that will lead me to live the life He wants me to. And I don't want to say that there's some kind of dichotomy either between secular and spiritual, because God's word would lead me to work hard at my writing. But at the same time, unless I learn from reading and praying that that's what God wants me to do w/ my writing, then I must put that above it to a certain extent?

You get what I'm sayin'? Ok, this is probably a good time to jot down a note to yourself that you didn't understand that last paragraph, and so later when you're bored reading this hecka long entry, you can send me a comment about it.

Ok, so yeah, this is free writing and I'm just gonna write about whatever; so beware!, it can probably get real boring.

EUROPE!!

For those of you who don't know, I'm going there! And if you click on my profile details and scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll see a link for another blog I'm doing so that anyone who cares can keep up with my trip and what kind of exciting things are happening; at least I hope exciting things will happen.

But yeah, I don't want to spend too much time talking about Europe on this blog.

How Does it Feel?

That's what everyone asks after you've accomplished some task or a major turn turn in your life has happened. Well, that question for me has followed my college graduation which took place in California. While in California and asked that question, I would respond with, "the same." Because it did. But now that I'm home, it doesn't necessarily feel different (which I've come to the concusion people don't really mean how do you feel, they mean, how has your thinking changed. I know, y'all are thinking, "duh". Well hey, I think too much, and I take things a little too literal, but I'm learning to change), but now that I'm home in Texas and not in California, I can feel a change. It feels a little weird because now when I think about the future, California and college are no longer in my future, at least not right now. I'm not leaving home in August. I don't have to sign up for any classes. I'm staying home. I'm looking for a job, and an apartement.

Life is changing, and in a way that it never has before. I'm used to preparing for school. Now I'm preparing for interviews and then my job. After that, I have no clue what else I'll be preparing for. Marriage? Moving? Missions? Kids? Death? Guess I'll have to trust in the Lord more than I've ever had to before. I'll need to expect the unexpected for now on. The only stability I have is in Jesus. I hope and pray I'll trust in that.

Time's Up

That's right ladies and gents, thirty minutes has come and gone. It's time to leave you with a line from a Seinfeld episode I heard last night.

"We take the money, it's what separates us from the animals."