somewhere, deep in the murky recesses of my mind, lurks a great fear. a fear of my obligations. a fear of the magazine story yet to be reported and written. a fear of the investigation into disabled accessibility on campus yet to be investigated and compiled. a fear of the internship application sitting untouched on the desktop. a fear of the journalism job fair on thursday, where rows upon rows of confident recruiters wait to weed through the latest crop. a fear of commitment, responsibility, adulthood, maturity, growth, change. i'm scared shitless and wouldn't have it any other way.
saw ralph nader speak for 45 minutes before i had to race off to my investigative reporting class this evening. great stuff about not wasting our twenties (age, not money, but both seem relevant to his discussion). highlights:
-we are a generation of screen-watchers. televisions, cellphones, palm pilots, mp3 players. (computers...a screen you are watching right now.) it's all passive.
-we tend to cling to the same words and repeat them over and over again. like, like, like, like, like. vocabularies are shrinking with every generation.
-an ancient chinese proverb: to know and not to act is not to know. do something now or we will become spectators in the decline of the world. and the world is declining.
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