Oh, absolutely. The need to impress runs deep within me. Sometimes I wonder if it's a side effect of my parents' divorce. To be good enough, to become indispensable -- it fits the profile, doesn't it.
To this day, I'm still trying to find a way to get past this without picking up cynicism along the way.
But yes, I did have a similar moment when I read Descartes. I was *stunned* by how deeply the man thought. For the first time I realized we read about these men hundreds of years later because they were indeed Great Thinkers. I stand in awe.
As an aside, as I continue to 'grow up', I find myself admiring more and more, people who do whatever the hell they want to do. There'll always be critics -- accurate or otherwise. But why let other people tie up your hands?
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Oh, absolutely. The need to impress runs deep within me. Sometimes I wonder if it's a side effect of my parents' divorce. To be good enough, to become indispensable -- it fits the profile, doesn't it.
To this day, I'm still trying to find a way to get past this without picking up cynicism along the way.
But yes, I did have a similar moment when I read Descartes. I was *stunned* by how deeply the man thought. For the first time I realized we read about these men hundreds of years later because they were indeed Great Thinkers. I stand in awe.
As an aside, as I continue to 'grow up', I find myself admiring more and more, people who do whatever the hell they want to do. There'll always be critics -- accurate or otherwise. But why let other people tie up your hands?