Just me Thinks

Another on and off week of work. Working, and most other things, seems to drain more energy during the waning weeks of winter. February broods, it's presence hovering over the promise of spring that March will bring. The shortest month becomes the longest. Grey days and black nights translate into mood, anxiously awaiting the changing of the seasons.

I had a conversation last night with a girl about teaching. She is a teacher and she asked me if I thought a teacher should teach a student everything they know, fearing that the student would soon overtake the teacher(She teaches some kind of eastern religious course). My thought was that by passing all the knowledge that the teacher possessed to the student, the teacher can then view his students accomplishments as partly his own, keeping that part of him which feels jealousy satisfied. She agreed with me, but asked if it was true that most people wouldn't be able to do this. Only a true teacher can give all their knowledge to somebody else, and the only example that I can readily come up with is a parent.

Faith. It's a hard word to define, and if you asked a hundred people, you'd probably get a hundred different answers. To me faith means the absolute inner assurance that whatever plan "the other" has in store for you, whatever way you shape your destiny, the choices you make will eventually work out for the better. Sometimes we reach points in our lives when we feel like we are having some sort of awakening, like things are clarifying right before our very eyes. We are sure that we've finally got it all figured out. The next minute we are left scratching our heads, wondering how the hell it all fell apart. Faith is the belief, through both sides of things, that things are happening exactly as they should.

Well, that certainly turned into a little more than I originally planned. I guess we all need to just let out a little bit once in a while. Happy February!!


See you when I see you
Baron