Reflections of a True Millennial

So welcome to the portion of the year where I act most like a nerd. Yeah, it's robotics season!  When I spend free time looking up other robots, and I'm at school so much that conversations go like this: "Hey want to hang out tomorrow?" "Sorry, I have to go to school." "But, it's Saturday..." "Well, yeah I have robotics." So, moral of the story: I'm lame.  But, you already knew that! Before you close the page, don't worry I'm not going to wax poetic about robots in this post. So keep reading! Being at school late everyday is challenging and tiring, but it's fun. I enjoy doing the things I do, even though they take up time. Time is limited, and with our time we can do things that we enjoy and things that we do not enjoy. Finding a balance between these two opposites is difficult. For example, you most likely do not enjoy all of your classes at school, but the knowledge and benefit they give you ca...

     Time is one of the few things that we have no ability to ever take back. There can be no way to rescind what you have done in the last second, minute, day, hour, year, or lifetime. With the abundance of blessings in the form of technological advancements and other devices designed to save you time, you think we would all do our best to live each moment of our days to the fullest. However, we squander our time in ways that bring no lasting blessings or happiness. Fear or laziness compel us to stick within our own sphere and not venture out into new territories. "Maybe I would do that, but I don't know how to." "Maybe I would do that but I don't have time." "For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"      - John Greenleaf Wittier       Too often we live beneath our capacity in our day to day lives. Many of the things we accomplish on a daily basis add nothing to our lives for good. If thos...

I meant to post this a while ago, but got lazy. So pretend it's 2012 again... ----------------- "Look not behind thee." Genesis 19:17      In less than two days the new year will come.      A time of hope, a time of change, a time of renewal.      But in the world today, hope seems like a far off concept sometimes, a foreign feeling that exists not in our own hearts or homes. Everyday it seems that more and more tragic stories are heard while looming economic cliffs and other national crises hang near. Cries are heard in every direction for gun control, economic regulation, and other measures of the sort. The words of the hymn "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow echo fittingly: And in despair I bowed my head "There is no peace on earth," I said, "For hate is strong and mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to men."      And so it seems that in the world today there is a ...