I’m starting to develop a huge love for understanding why things are the way they are. I’ve thought a lot about the world today in terms of how Emerson talked about it in his writings. He believed that society was poisonous and that you can only learn about your life if you seclude yourself from the world and look at your life and investigate. I’m a firm believer in that and although there is an infinite amount of ways you can look at the world, this is the one that I though most about today.

The idea I came up with today is that there are two major characteristics you can find in everybody that are completely opposite. People get spun up in the world, but the potential for these two characteristics lies in all of us. I believe that some people were born with a love or maybe even a need to express themselves artistically as an output of energy. Then, there are others that love or maybe even need to soak in information and understand the world around them as an output of energy. To put it out into cognition. I believe that everyone has a unique potential in both but some love one or the other or both or none.

Like my friend Ryan Cline for instance. I don’t know about his artistic potential because I’ve never seen it, but he has a great understanding of the way things work… but he really doesn’t care how things work. He’s pursuing a career in the military, which I completely respect and support 100%. I, on the other hand, am completely satisfied by intense thinking sessions and reading non-fiction essays and things like that.

I’ve been reading about Gottfried Leibniz’s (A 17th century German mathematician and philosopher) ideas in metaphysics. Although it seems ridiculous that I’m a 17 year old kid reading into far more advanced material than I appear to fit into, I understand a lot of it. My reading skills are also¬†growing.

Leibniz is definitely one of my new found heroes. He was a philosopher that was really good at getting you to look at the¬†universe and relate it to a Christian view of God. He was most famous for taking to contradictory ideas, extracting all of the truth in them, and them relating them through the truths. He was actually majorly responsible for the Reparation of the Church. He was very open-minded, but he stood strong in his faith. I’ve been reading essays on websites about¬†his writings and I just asked my dad if he could buy his metaphysics book for me.

Metaphysics is a lot less scary than it sounds. I don’t think I’m superior for looking into and understanding what it is because it’s not that hard. I simply invest my time in things that I find more beneficial.¬†I’m trying to get a “jump start” into college, if you will.¬†Metaphysics is just as basic as it gets. It¬†talks about¬†ideas that have no deeper reasoning other than they just are. It also takes a lot of these ideas and puts them together to demonstrate how perfect harmony is found everywhere in the universe, thus showing that it is a miracle that things are the way they area.

I believe that I was born with a purpose. I want to make at least one break through in my college career. I have no idea if I’m smart enough, but I’m confident in myself and my ego is not spiraling out of control. I would accept if I wasn’t smart enough or maybe lucky enough to come up with a break through in science, but with the way I’m burning through Calculus and understanding all of this upper¬† level material in philosophy and physics feels like God is just waving¬†a flag¬†right in front of my face.

It’s been a good investigative two weeks or so. I’m really start to read a lot which is awesome. I feel good about it and enjoy it.

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