This blog was supposed to be an attempt at having a weekly article about something I observe every week. What I have observed since I created is that I have no time. I am currently a student, still in community college after 8 years and near two associates degrees. I am either working or spending time with my husband, and I have a tendency to brush off school. I have problems with wanting to have noise going so I tend to watch dvd television instead of doing work.
The strange thing is, is that a couple of years ago I could honestly say that I hadn't watched television in about 5 years. I couldn't really get it to keep my attention, but serial television has sort of brought back the concept of evening soap operas, and I am hooked on the idea of living someone else's life. I watch the shows and I think "man, I'd like to do that, but instead I am just watching it happen to someone else. And that someone isn't even real. It's a figment of another person's imagination. Someone who, similar to their character is not watching television, but going out and living life.
When I decided to set up this blog, I had a vision of it being something similar to Sex and the City, but with a bit more of an esoteric twist. Incorporating the everyday philosophical musings of the people around me. I guess I don't really surround myself with that kind of person anymore, and when they do talk about such things it's more of lecture than a conversation, with me getting an earful of "here's what I think".
At first sight it would seem that we are in the midst of a spiritual revolution that showed its beginnings in the early 20th century, possibly before. But now it just seems that a combination of apathy and the adage of "let's agree to disagree" have seemed to stagnate it for the generation I grew up in. There really seems to be no interest, and even if there is, the majority seem ill inclined to look into blurry ideologies quantitatively and truly dive into their ideas. It is as if we have shaken off the shackles of concrete dogma, and then not bothered to take another step.
Those who do seem to think along those lines seem still driven to create one firm and final answer that everyone must adhere to. At times I feel that I might be the only one who believes that beliefs can be malleable, variable, and personalized. While I have high hopes for the Interfaith Movement, and I am concerned that if the interest is not taken up by the newer generations its future will be bleak.
So with this first post I am just curious. Is there anybody out there?
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