There is no antidote

So its the start of the new school year and I am honestly really excited to be back. Being a move in assistant was...an experience but I was entirely glad to see all my UCLA friends again. I say UCLA friends because I recognize that there is a difference-not that I think that one group of friends is better than another that is not what I am trying to say at all. What is the word I am looking for? Motivation. That's the word. There is just this satisfaction in surrounding yourself with people that want to do something, something with their lives-with other's lives, and with the world. I mean I love my friends at home I really do-and in fact I'm not even thinking about some of them fitting into this category as I write this, but then there is that group of friends who just don't seem to want to go anywhere. People can say "well that's not fair Jordan, some people don't think school is their calling" true but I am not just referencing academics. There are...

so it looks as though my blogs are going to be merely reactions towards books I have read, but I don't think that will be the case ha-ha. Its just that I have read another good book that has made me ponder about life; the book I am talking about is called The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This book is nothing short of awesome-truly. It really got me thinking. Value- what do we put a value on when it really comes down to it. Love? wealth? Security? There are so many things that seem valuable to us but when it really came down to it-if the things we believed had some worth in our lives vanished, no, were taken from us- I want to know how important would it REEAALLLLY be. I'm trying to think of what I hold valuable in my life. food, friends, laughter (it sounds like a dinner party) but really I value those things so much. I can say that food is extrinsically valuable-actually all of them are because they serve as a means to bring me to what I guess I really want out of life, happiness...