Summer Assessment
Today, I was faced with the question “did you have a good summer?” I guess my short answer is that “good” is not the first word that comes to mind when I look back over the events of the past few months.
Have you ever seen the 2002 movie The Time Machine? I found it to be bizarre and pointless, and it left me with the empty feeling that I had just been robbed of two hours of my life. I kept waiting for some kind of lesson or moral, but there was none (at least not one that made any sense).
That’s sort of how I feel about this summer. It was basically a disconnected sequence of bizarre events (mostly dealing with interpersonal relationships) that had no definitive conclusion or obvious overall message. The only thing that I’ve really “learned” is that I don’t understand people.
I feel like a little kid recoiling from the shock of sticking a paperclip in a wall outlet. I have no idea what just happened or what the heck is in that wall causing sparks to fly. All I know is that I’m not gonna do it again.
Posted: September 10th, 2008 under Introspection.