Hello! Happy Wednesday!
I often enjoy this day of the week. It is sort of like my half way recovery. As some people put it, this is 'hump day'. Sort of a questionable name... but if you can make it past Wednesday, then the rest of the week is a breeze. Today is September 23. It is the 266th day of the year and there are 99 days left in 2009. Yes, I did use Wikipedia. =)
Right now I am reading 'Slaughter House 5' by Kurt Vonnegut. It is pretty much consuming my life right now, so I should talk about it! In my English class I was given a list of 101 best books of all time. This was on it. I guess you could say that it is an anti war book. Boring right? Wrong. It is very interesting. The author has many different perspectives on life. Educated perspectives. I enjoy thinking about them. As I was reading last night I came across something very interesting. I will try to explain...
At this point in the book, the main character (Billy) has supposedly been taken away to the planet Tralfamadore. The creatures of the planet have put him into a zoo to be studied. At one point, Billy is discussing the idea of war with some of the Tralfamadorians. This is what it comes to say....
I often enjoy this day of the week. It is sort of like my half way recovery. As some people put it, this is 'hump day'. Sort of a questionable name... but if you can make it past Wednesday, then the rest of the week is a breeze. Today is September 23. It is the 266th day of the year and there are 99 days left in 2009. Yes, I did use Wikipedia. =)
Right now I am reading 'Slaughter House 5' by Kurt Vonnegut. It is pretty much consuming my life right now, so I should talk about it! In my English class I was given a list of 101 best books of all time. This was on it. I guess you could say that it is an anti war book. Boring right? Wrong. It is very interesting. The author has many different perspectives on life. Educated perspectives. I enjoy thinking about them. As I was reading last night I came across something very interesting. I will try to explain...
At this point in the book, the main character (Billy) has supposedly been taken away to the planet Tralfamadore. The creatures of the planet have put him into a zoo to be studied. At one point, Billy is discussing the idea of war with some of the Tralfamadorians. This is what it comes to say....
"So-" said Billy gropingly, "I suppose that the idea of preventing war on Earth is stupid, too"
"Of course."
"But you do have a peaceful planet here."
"Today we do. On other days we have wars as horrible as any you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments- like today at the zoo. Isn't this a nice moment?"
"Yes."
"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones."
"Um," said Billy.
I thought it was very interesting. "Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones." As hard as it will be....I am going to make it a goal.
Goodnight everyone.
-Lexi
Ps. I wore white pants after Labour Day
"But you do have a peaceful planet here."
"Today we do. On other days we have wars as horrible as any you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments- like today at the zoo. Isn't this a nice moment?"
"Yes."
"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones."
"Um," said Billy.
I thought it was very interesting. "Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones." As hard as it will be....I am going to make it a goal.
Goodnight everyone.
-Lexi
Ps. I wore white pants after Labour Day
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