Quotes and such

"When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it over there." (unknown).

"When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that their house is a delapidated piece of crap that nobody can see becasue people only look at the grass." (me).

I think the second one is true. When we envy people, because we think they have it better than us, we often don't know the whole story. We only look at the surface. The first quote is implying a responsibility towards your own "grass," which I would agree with, but I think that my quote better captures people's victimization of themselves (if I may humbly say so myself).

"How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?" (John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath). (I am unfortunately being forced to read that book at the moment. Steinbeck is very good with descriptions and character development and even the aura of the book, but it is very slow. And Steinbeck is usually depressing so I'm just waiting for everyone to die).

"In the coming world, the capacity to face the new appropriately is more important than the ability to know and repeat the old." (Carl Rogers).

Those last two are obviously contrasting. I think that (as is usual) the truth is somewhere in the middle.

In English we watched the movie The Scarlet Letter, and it made me think a lot about conformity, and whether the real sins are what society says they are, or if the real sins are accepting what society says and how it molds you without fighting it and trying to discover yourself as an individual seperate from the often corrupted practices of society.

Also, I am finally reading The DaVinci Code and I am really curious as to how much of it is actually proven true (I don't believe most of it, but it's interesting). The Gnostic Bibles I must admit sound nothing like the King James bible or whatever... I must admit it confuses me that people that knew each other would speak and write so incredibly different from each other when the tone of the bible is pretty much consistent. I don't know. You could drown in that skepticism. The simple fact remains that religion can't prove there is a God and that Christ was his son, but science can't prove there isn't, and the negating clash is usually required to have the burden of warrent for their claims.

I don't know. I'm really tired but I'm not depressed this week for some odd reason. I wasn't really depressed this weekend either, which was very good considering the tournament. Debate makes me so stressed out... when I'm at debate I could eat 50,000 calories and I'm pretty sure I'd metabolize it because stress does some really screwy things to my body.