I don't intend to make all of my titles the name of cinema/literary works. I'm not even an English major...
I'm not sure how, but somehow I missed having to read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in high school. I signed up for a class this semester titled "Being Mortal" and as part of the course this slight in my education was recently remedied.
There is so much insight in those pages! I was struck time and time again by the potential consequences of misplaced ambition. I especially related to this quote:
“I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections…then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not benefiting to the human mind."
It is so easy to think that there will always be a tomorrow, but eventually (and we don't know when) we will run out of tomorrows. What do we want to say we did? I do not believe that there is any knowledge so worth pursuing that it justifies the neglect of the people around us. Does what we spend our time doing incline us to turn inward or outward?
I'm not sure how, but somehow I missed having to read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in high school. I signed up for a class this semester titled "Being Mortal" and as part of the course this slight in my education was recently remedied.
There is so much insight in those pages! I was struck time and time again by the potential consequences of misplaced ambition. I especially related to this quote:
“I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections…then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not benefiting to the human mind."
It is so easy to think that there will always be a tomorrow, but eventually (and we don't know when) we will run out of tomorrows. What do we want to say we did? I do not believe that there is any knowledge so worth pursuing that it justifies the neglect of the people around us. Does what we spend our time doing incline us to turn inward or outward?