Conformity to Laws

Antigone was portrayed as brave, but was she really trying to be valiant when she gave her brother his death rites? Breaking a law is more than just demonstrating against conformity. There has to be a purpose and reason to break a law for the action to be justifiable. A higher cause must be fulfilled, or the disobedience is hollow, and without meaning. The whole point of publically demonstrating a law is to attract people to a cuase, and when there is no cause, people will lose faith in the behavior and the opposition to the specific law. Laws should be broken to prove that the law in question is immoral, or not applicabble to society. Furthermore, breaking a law should benefit the greater good.

What If?

Would you could chose the path of your own destiny? What if you could pick out all the milestones ahead of you in your life and decide what will happen? There would be no stress and anticipation. If doom was destined, you could prepare for it ahead of time. The doom would be inevitable, and it could be a test of your resiliency. If you manage to maintain sanity during the crisis, you pass the test and stay orientated. Fail, and you spiral into the oblivion of disoreintation. Take Oedipus for example. He lost his sanity, gouged out his eyes and doubted his capability of continuing life normally.The question is, however, what aspects of our life do we actually have control over?

When I Think Silently

As the dark cathedral that holds my inner thoughts is fills up with knowledge, the time is speeding past me. I sometimes wonder, "how did it get so late already?" I constantly have to be on my toes in order to accomplish the things I need to do on a daily basis. Even now as I am thinking about time limits, I wonder about "The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently." I never really thought about how different thoughts are from spoken words. Your thoughts are your own, they can mean anything. No one can interrupt you in your sacred hideaway, and your inner voice is different, as Thomas Lux explains. I can't say that the inner voice is rational, but it is definitely what makes us unique. Even when the world is spinning around you, you can rely on that inner voice to speak reason.

I just realized today how quickly the days are going by, and instead of being happy, I am actually worried. All the responsibilities that revolve around college stress me out. I am similar to Lot's wife slightly in how she doesn't want to leave Sodom, because I don't want to step out of my comfort zone. Overcoming that speed bump in my life's highway will change the final destination to my adulthood. It would just be too easy to have my highway laid out for me, but there are so many twists and turns, dead ends, and exits that distract and change me along the way. I don't want to end up like Bartleby, either, with the only way off his highway being the dead end. I will be make sure that my highway has just the right amount of speed bumps and turns.