Le Weekend

So I was so excited about weekend free for all blogging earlier in the week, and yet, I find that I haven't posted a single blog this entire weekend!! Every good blogging idea I come up with, I want to save until my real day. But I can't resist any longer. I, too am avoiding homework, with the same odd calm as Kailey described. As the end of the year workload mounts, I find myself feeling not stressed or overwhelmed as much as I feel a little bit of sadness and disbelief. I can't believe that in less than two weeks I will be at home. I can't believe that my first year of college is almost over. And most of all, I can't believe that I won't be coming back to this life next year! It all seems so fleeting, but I've come to realize that that's what life is. It's not like I've gained all this wisdom or anything, but I've certainly come to realize just how important it is to enjoy every moment of life and the people you share it with, but also to embrace change. I have learned and experienced so much this year, it's truly unbelievable. I never thought that my first year of college would be so truly rewarding. Continuing with the theme of social over academic emphasis for this year, particularly this semester, I feel as if my final weeks here should be spent enjoying the company of my bffs and soaking in every little bit of San Francisco that I can. Ok, blah blah blah, whatevs. That wasn't the direction that I intended this post to take when I started. I was actually going to share this quote from John Stuart Mill's "The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill" on his theory of Utilitarianism that I found to be heartening and inspiring, especially coming from a philosopher...

"In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, every one who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find this enviable existence, if he escape the positive evils of life, the great sources of physical and mental suffering--such as indigence, disease, and the unkindness, worthlessness, or premature loss of objects of affection" (247)

So actually, that tangent proved to be more relevant than I imagined. I love the simplicity and almost naivety of Mill's theory of Utilitarianism. Basically he says to act in a way which brings about happiness in others. Like, duh. Not a hard concept. That's my kind of philosophy. I mean, he says a bunch of other crap too (feel free to read my soontobe 6 page paper....not) but I really appreciate his view on things.

Ok, I really should be channeling these thoughts into paper form, rather than blogging.

Love and high fives,

MT