Free advice

Golden moment of the day: Some friends and I set up a free advice booth in the Wilk. Don’t worry if you missed it; it should be reemerging around Friday next week, and more officially (at least in appearance) so. The best part was that it was initally my idea, which they totally jumped on when they realized I was actually serious. I love good friends, especially these ones. Quality.

So in my English class we were talking about the apology of Socrates. He’s kind of funny, going around examining people and then telling them how and why they’re stupid. I would get a little aggravated too if I were Athenian. But he said something that stuck out to me in Apology; that “the unexamined life is not worth living”. I think this is totally true. We need to be continually checking our motivations, works (we’re creating them whether we realize it or not), goals, etc. so we don’t get sucked under. The current of complacency is really strong, which is kind of counterintuitive if you think about it. So I have this goal chart in my room to keep track of my “vital signs”, i.e. how much time I spend in the scriptures, exercising, writing music, and writing in my journal each day. It helps me a lot. I think that everyone’s list of vital signs is going to be a little different. But I think that we each know what we have to do to keep our head above water.