Sunday, April 26, 2015

Stopping and thinking

Sometimes, especially when life is busy1. , I make myself stop and think: what am I doing with life? Why am I doing it? What's going on, Owen?


Simple reflections get passed over, pushed away or even hidden from, but self-examination is paramount in my life. I love to stay busy and not think, which is why I surround myself with people who ask me the same questions.


All those times when I was younger and I'd get in trouble my parents would ask me afterwards to think about what I'd done, the effects that I'd caused or why did I act the way I did. I rarely did think about my actions in depth. I was young, and life was about doing--I am an extrovert after all.


Today I still live an extroverted life, Hibbing is making that blatantly obvious. But I realize how critical it is for me to stop, rest, and think, examine and critique myself.



Question: What are you doing with life right now? Why are you doing it? What's going on?

Hibbing moment: I only have 4 more weeks in Hibbing. I've reached the halfway point! This totally counts as my Hibbing moment.





1 And life is always busy unless you’re on the 3rd week of Christmas break and starting to get that sick and twisted feeling that you actually kinda sorta wanna get back to school. The one you immediately regret once you’re back into your 1st week of classes.


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