keranzi

strange things are happening around here. students are back in town and the traffic on university avenue is hell to maneuver a car through [good thing i bought a bike]. the once energetic water park is now quiet, the water slides are bone-dry, and my skin color is returning to it's usual blinding whiteness. this can only mean one thing: summer is on it's deathbed . . . but the good news is, i can stop shaving my legs. : )

three weeks ago school started and ended my life. but before that happened i started reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis. the premise of the book is basically a more experienced 'devil' giving a less experienced 'devil' advice on how to lead us away from the 'enemy' (God) and our goal of eternal life. it sounds weird, but trust me it's so good. i only got about halfway through the book before school took over and consumed every second of my time. no, let me rephrase that: my anatomy class took over and consumed every second of my time. which i don't really mind because there is this anatomy T.A who is really cute. let's just say it's good motivation to study and go to reviews. : ) 

a n y w a y. so far my favorite part has been this little excerpt on time. past, present, and future. i'm just going to straight up quote the book. (remember, the narrater is screwtape a minion of satan if you will ) ...

"The humans live in time, but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. 

Our business is to get them away from the eternal, and from the Present. With this in view, we sometimes tempt a human to live in the Past. But this is of limited value, for they have some real knowledge of the past and it has a determinate nature and, to that extent, resembles eternity. It is far better to make them live in the Future. Biological necessity makes all their passions point in that direction already, so that thought about the Future inflames hope and fear. Also, it is unknown to them, so that in making them think about it we make them think of unrealities. In a word, the Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time — for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. To be sure, the Enemy wants men to think of the Future too — just so much as is necessary for now planning the acts of justice or charity which will probably be their duty tomorrow. The duty of planning the morrow’s word is today’s duty; though its material is borrowed from the future, the duty, like all duties, is in the Present. [...] He does not want men to give the Future their hearts, to place their treasure in it. We do. We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy NOW, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present."

my point? prepare for the future, learn from the past, but live in the now. because 'right now' is the closest thing we have to eternity.

Now, if you'll excuse me, i'm off to the anatomy lab . . . 

tschüss,

Keri