A Swift Kick to the Groin

^Sounds awful doesn't it?^ I would hope to shout!

Frustration. Lack of patience. Pessimism. Lack of faith. Annoyed. Puzzled. Pacified.
These are all things I experienced today. I went to school and I had a lot good moments, if I wasn't then moving here was pointless. However the low points or the parts that could be better still scream at me with the same, or maybe more intense, severity that they always have. Is that weird? Is it so odd that a substantial portion of my time is spent thinking about the crappier parts of my education? I sound like an over-privileged pompous ass, but it's true. I'm thankful for the country I live in, the personal liberties I have, the roof over my head, the food on my table, but I'm extremely dissatisfied at the same time. It's odd that, the fact that no matter how well things are, people manage to find someone or something to complain about. Some people do this with regularity and with gusto, possibly not even realizing how annoying they are to those around them. To put down and slander someone based on split-encounter encounters or tiny tidbits of information is to highlight your own flaws as a person, and ultimately expose a side of you that is only the ugliest kind of experience.

Now that the philosophy lesson is over, I shall attempt to dazzle you with my insight once more. I don't think of myself as some all-knowing authority on the subject of anything, but I do believe that my knowledge and judgement of many things are leaps and bounds ahead of those who are my peers, or anyone for that matter. I've seen adults with the emotional maturity of an eight-year-old, and I've seen old people throw hissy fits as if they were back in kindergarten. That being said, I'm only a hundred words shy of my 1200 word requirement. Not that that matters, but it certainly may affect the length of this post.

As I was rereading the last paragraph I remembered something: I am a philosopher. Everyone is a philosopher to some degree. I've been told many a time that I have the air and the ideas of a philosopher, guys like Aristotle and Socrates, not these noobs of present day whom no one could name or recognize. This blog isn't just about education, (god that words grinds against my eardrums like sand between two panes of glass!) it's also about my own philosophy. On life, on learning, on loving (not big into this but I thought it couldn't hurt to list), on the existence of humans, on consciousness not only as a species but as a cosmos. The cosmos-consciousness thing is actually a possible topic of my essay, though I'm not sure if I have a story to illustrate the behemoth concepts that encompass the topic...

This was good. Not an overly-serious post, just a couple of guys hanging out, being regular people. Family Guy reference. Boom. Roasted.