Humanities & Classics 1003
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To give my final 2 cents.... Even though I have been more of an observer than a speaker this round, I can not say that I have not learned anything. The path into the dark part of human nature was a focus in this class and one that only now am I really starting to understand. A major question for me personally have come up in my mind several times throughout this quarter. There a some people that seem to go through life sort of saying "why think about that dark stuff, I just want to live and live happy." This seems like a good attitude, and one I wish I had, being that I am usually on the more depressed side of the fence. I really can not figure these people out. After more thought, I am now becomming more certain that even these people must at one point in their lives, if even only once, face this part of themselves that they don't like, that may even scare them. It also came to me that to have an opinion about the dark side, they would have had to have had an experience with it before. If so, did that experience disturb them that much that they feel the need to get rid of those sensations? I look on these people with sadness in a way, they hide their pain in newer and more creative ways that I could ever come up with. I am also remind myself of the romance of the dark side of life. I find I sort of enjoy that and when I catch myself acting in such a way I will often just say, well hell lets be romantic about it. Its better that hiding the toughts, right? I hope so..well we must all try to go on in life the only ways we know how. I often think that as Shelley once said the sadest stories are the best ones. I think most of those good, sad, stories have come from people who have decided to go on with life, not those who have decided to end it. After all putting up with life is what the whole game is about.
onelove,
lars jenkins