For the few years that I’ve had a “blog,” its primary purpose has been to serve as a pulpit for my theological / political / sociological rants. But to tell you the truth, I’m pretty tired of my preaching, as I imagine is anyone who might occasionally stumble upon this site. When I was 24 I felt like I had a pretty tight grasp on all the big issues of life and the world. Now, just a few years later, I feel like the old Op Ivy song “Knowledge” pretty well sums me up: “all I know is that I don’t know nothing.” And, as the lyrics say, that’s fine. It’s actually pretty freeing.
With that said, lately I’ve been toying with the idea of resurrecting this thing and using it less as a forum for my silly op-ed pieces and more as a way to document life. There’s a lot of good in this world that doesn’t require theorizing or philosophizing — I have a wonderful wife, a beautiful house, a lovable cat, a dear group of friends, a good family… it’s time to focus on those things — the things that actually matter.
I’m not saying I’ll never write about anything other than my life; I’m merely saying I’d like to stop pretending that what I have to say on contemporary issues is so important. Those things aren’t real life. I’d like to start treating them as such.
Word.
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