There Are No Answers
People say I watch too much TV. TV shows allow you to watch the more exciting side of life from a scripted point of view. Crimes are solved in an hour (actually 43 minutes) in this kind of world. But you know what, despite the shallow story-lines, the clichéd, hackneyed character roles, and the more than over-done plays on class, race and gender in the crime-thriller genre I enjoy so much, there is some wisdom.
My new favorite show is “Life” (check it out here : http://www.hulu.com/search?query=Life&st=1). And one quote from today’s episode stuck out for me:
There are no answers in life, only questions.

We don’t have answers for most of the things in the world. Society has developed such that our everyday interactions are populated by conversations that promote the sharing of the answers that we do know.
I’ve been feeling very overwhelmed for the last week. For the Larkin staff reading this, yes I couldn’t put a name on the emotion yesterday, but now I can. Part of that feeling is because of not having answers to some of the more pertinent big-picture questions I’m faced with now.
“Will the frosh like me?”
“Will I be a good RA?”
“Can I balance friends,class and Larkin?”
Sometime questions like this only come up because there’s a part of me that thinks it isn’t possible. But a much (much much) bigger part of me knows that the existence of this doubt will only make me work harder, run faster, jump higher…and that comforts me.
Kudos to Matt Rubin:
For better or for worse, I’m taking things one week at a time.
So I’m going to keep things in the short term. Less uncertainty, more small-picture focus. Once I get comfy I can extend my outlook to longer periods of time and work from there.
I Love Larkin. I Love North Side. I Love West Side. I Love Larkin.



