Flying Eggs : Words of Inspiration

Inspirational Quote:

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

-- C. S. Lewis

These words give me such a longing to fulfill my potential. If we don't hatch, how will we learn to fly? I want to know that I gave my best effort and that I could not have done any better. I don't want to wake up at the end of the semester, done with softball, feeling horrid about myself because I'll never have another chance to play. I want to Win. but more than that I want to fulfill my potential. I want to be the best I can be and have made the best friends and learned the best things and used my time in the best possible manner.

I want to be hatched.

The Workings of My Mind

Hello. Introductions are in order, I believe.

I am a 21 year old student of literature, preparing to graduate from a small Christian college into the brand new world of grad school. I have felt compelled to use my vast abundance of free time (note the sarcasm here) to journal my thoughts and musings in a public manner. Some of these posts will be informal responses I have written for class, some will be written exclusively for your eyes. Some will be unbearably trivial, while some may wander into unfathomably deep thoughts only to be caught by the undercurrent and lost at sea for years only to show up one day with a sun burn and a scraggly beard ready to contribute meaningfully to society.

I play softball, which takes up a lot of the time I am not spending on homework, and will most likely be the subject of several posts over the course of this semester. But don't worry, I promise it will be good stuff. Very inspirational and motivational and educational and not dull at all. I promise.

I thought I'd have a couple regular items at the beginning or end of my thoughtful posts (as opposed to?? good question) such as "Currently Reading", "Currently Memorizing", "Currently Procrastinating"; that sort of deal. The "Currently Reading" section will be mostly stuff for my classes until I have time to actually have a say in what I read, and the memorizing may stay the same for long amounts of time as I struggle to truly place the quote in my word hoard.

This semester I am taking classes on literary criticism, Renaissance literature, the book of Hebrews, Cinema and the Christian faith, and modern civilizations. These topics will show up as we go along.

I'm sorry if I sound unbearably priggish. I'm really not. I'm probably just trying too hard. Whatever that means.

So here goes nothing.

Currently Reading: 

Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 3.

Currently Memorizing:

Philippians 4:6-7 - "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."