I spent most of today reading a blog, which may sound pretty mindless. But the reason I kept reading for hour after hour was that it was actually incredibly challenging, and it has been awhile since I was really challenged like that. In fact, it may have been since before graduation that I was last I was challenged like that. No matter how progressive I think I am, every now and then I am confronted by ways of understanding that really force me to be truthful with myself about the way I view the world. Bitch Ph.D. has made me do that today. If you're interested in having your ways of understanding and your assumptions about how life is lived challenged I suggest you check it out, especially the back posts under the Some of My Better Bitching section. There are a lot of things she believes that I am totally on board with, a lot of ideas where we're totally on the same page, and then there are others which she is super truthful an open about (for which I applaud her) that really push me in terms of being open to ways of understanding other than just my own.
I think I'm posting about this now partially because of my post from last night. My love for vh1 really isn't a secret, and I'm not trying to make it one, but I also think it's important for me to make sure you all know that I am more than that. I, like everyone of you, am a complex individual with a very wide range of tastes and interests. One of my interests is TV, watching TV I enjoy is really a very relaxing thing for me, and you can feel about that how you will, but it is, which is why I love it so much. But I also don't attempt to be relaxed 100% of the time and one of my interests is being mentally and emotionally challenged. This is because I believe if you don't live a life where you are challenged on a regular basis you are not growing, and to me growth is an essential part of living. Truthfully, lately I have not been living a life where I have been challenged all that regularly (at least in terms of other ways of understanding), and it may that at this point in my life I need to work to find ways to be challenged, which is not really something I'm used to. So I am grateful do Dr. B for reminding me how much I enjoy being challenged and also that it is a neccessity in becoming the kind of person I want to be.
P.S. If you don't get the Bowie thing, which you probably won't unless you were around me a lot last year, you can ask, or you can just take it for what it is and move on. I am open to either.
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I'm asking. :)
hahaha ok. I say things, like "thank god" alot, which I have decided is silly, since I don't really believe in god in that way. Last year I made up a religion called Bowieism, where David Bowie was the supreme being (also Freddy Mercury was the Goddess, and all the other memebers of Queen were the archangles). The goal of practising Bowieism was to discover your truw alter ego (by the way, mine is named Zoe). Obviously this was all humorous, but from now on I'm saying "thank Bowie" in place of "thank god".
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