The Friend Zone: Episode Two

The next person I fell for was Carrie at the small Christian school I was at, and this episode was only passing, similar to my previous one. The big crush, that for Andrea, didn’t happen until later. I can’t remember my exact age at the time, but I think it was my junior or senior …

Second Place is the First Loser

This entry builds off of a previous entry about morals, which revealed that my ideal of the perfect person is essentially Christ-like and Ascetic. We live in an extremely materialistic society. I don’t think the breadth and scope of materialism has ever been exceeded in the history of Humanity. Nearly all explanations about the human …

The Friend Zone, Episode One

I will now kick off a Journal series I’d like to call “The Friend Zone.” Basically I will detail the ignominious times I have been put in such a zone by the women I have actually showed an interest in. However, according to the Internet, you can’t truly consider it the “Friend Zone” if you …

Virtueless Virtue

I’ve been listening to a series of lectures on the great ideas of Philosophy lately, delivered by some sort of Oxford Professor and published by The Teaching Company. A lot of the Hellenic (Greek) Philosophers focused much of their thought toward the Problem of Society: what is the purpose of government and what should our …

Rationally Suicidal

My body is sluggish, my mind is fogged. I’ve been asleep, off and on, for the past 12 hours. I think something is going on with my medication. The Lamictal was upped to 300mg about two months ago, but in the past couple of weeks I’ve been having . . . mental disturbances. It all …