so it begins, the last week before finals, when everything that has been procrastinated is no longer procrastinateable. A paper, three tests and sleeping seems to be all that I can think of, or all that I should think of. Life, even as a student, is not lived detached from the reality of existence. The vulnerability remains.
We are not machines, we cannot go without that which nurtures and sustains. An argument for the bondage of the will is simply thus: we must sleep, we must eat. However much we enjoy such bondage, it remains bondage nonetheless. (I just said bondage twice.) I think that those who are burdened by such a yoke can understand better this concept of the bondage of the will: when I can't sleep, I know I must; I cannot will not to sleep. So it is now, amidst the end times of this Spring semester. Do I dare sleep? Will my mind let me sleep whilst it worries about the seemingly unending tasks that remain before me? Will I wake up and think, "London, plan for London...did I forget to floss?...remember your financial aid meeting on Friday...can I really work hard enough to go home on Monday?...maybe tomorrow I will run again...."
I want to know without learning, but this is not to be for knowledge cannot come, but is given: shaped and formed through learning, studying and plain hard work.
Can I get some inspiration? Please?