Capree and I decided to take the plunge! We are having a....XBOX 360!!! Woo!
Oblivion and Call of Duty 4 here we come!
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Thoreau
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau.
is-ˈkāp : to avoid a threatening evil
Reading:
The theme of escape has come up a few times in the last week or so, whether it is above mentioned book, No Country For Old Men, Bicycle Thieves, or many other examples in my life. I've been trying to make sense of the significance of escape and how my awareness of its meaning has heightened.
Escape has always seemed to me a negative trait. I perceive people do temporary and usually damaging things to escape from their stress and problems. Drugs, alcohol, sleeping around, etc. Escape is a cop out and its cruel irony only causes people to childishly further ensnare themselves.
While it is true that people often choose poorly when faced with the opportunity of escape (i.e. Llewelyn Moss in No Country taking the money), it sometimes isn't ultimately up to us. Fate or outside forces or whatever you want to call it keeps us
from having full control (see: Antonio Ricci in Bicycle Thieves). And that is scary and frustrating to know that no matter what you do or how you attempt to escape from something, there is a possibility that you will never escape.
So with all this media and personal experience laid before me, I'm writing this mostly to remind myself: I can't control everything that effects my outcome and life. It's not so much the placement and stature of life, but how it is lived.
The most admirable people live with honor and adhere to their code of ethics, regardless of the fire and damnation that befalls them. Their code may not seem the most logical at times, but it allows them to escape a threatening evil: themselves.
I can stop the monster.
The theme of escape has come up a few times in the last week or so, whether it is above mentioned book, No Country For Old Men, Bicycle Thieves, or many other examples in my life. I've been trying to make sense of the significance of escape and how my awareness of its meaning has heightened.
Escape has always seemed to me a negative trait. I perceive people do temporary and usually damaging things to escape from their stress and problems. Drugs, alcohol, sleeping around, etc. Escape is a cop out and its cruel irony only causes people to childishly further ensnare themselves.
While it is true that people often choose poorly when faced with the opportunity of escape (i.e. Llewelyn Moss in No Country taking the money), it sometimes isn't ultimately up to us. Fate or outside forces or whatever you want to call it keeps us
from having full control (see: Antonio Ricci in Bicycle Thieves). And that is scary and frustrating to know that no matter what you do or how you attempt to escape from something, there is a possibility that you will never escape.
So with all this media and personal experience laid before me, I'm writing this mostly to remind myself: I can't control everything that effects my outcome and life. It's not so much the placement and stature of life, but how it is lived.
The most admirable people live with honor and adhere to their code of ethics, regardless of the fire and damnation that befalls them. Their code may not seem the most logical at times, but it allows them to escape a threatening evil: themselves.
I can stop the monster.
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