Pure Mood
So I’ve had an interesting time these past few weeks with the start of college, so this is a brain dump of what I’m feeling. I hope you’ll take the time to read and maybe respond. But if you don’t, that’s perfectly fine. It’s just like the title says: pure mood.
I know the term “ring by spring” applies mostly to girls, but a lot of my extended family got married in college (a few of them at John Brown) and so I’m feeling more than a bit of pressure there. It’s probably a bit wrong of me to expect to make more than friends for at least the first semester, but I’ve never been a really adept person at relationships of any kind. If any female-type person reads this: sorry, I’ll try but I’m going to be awkward sometimes. Yeah.
Second thing that’s been on my mind is technology. Why is it so necessary in the first place? When I was at home I would spend nearly 24/7 on my computer doing some form of electronic thing or another. It was good, and I enjoyed it. But now that I’m here I spend maybe an hour on the computer, and most of that’s just checking facebook and e-mail and doing homework. It’ll get to be more I think as the year goes on and I have to write more papers and stuff, but for now I could get along fine without a computer. And I actually like that for some strange reason. Before I couldn’t even imagine being without a computer for any length of time, now I think that I could do like a 6 month mission trip or something with limited access to any form of communication without much difficulty. Just one of those strange quirks of getting more mature, I guess. Who knows what God’s got planned for me? I haven’t even touched any of my programming projects in nearly a month.
The third thing is church. I’ve gone to a church with some friends called Community Christian Fellowship (CCF) for the past couple of weeks. It’s kind of a funny thing though, there’s nothing unsound in their doctrine or in how they conduct their services. In fact I like the church, the pastor, and the music, but there’s just something there that I can’t really account for that kind of throws me. I think the term for it is a “cognitive dissonance.” Something that needs to be resolved but can’t really be easily without major change. Luckily in my case, major change won’t be hard to do. I’ll just go to a different church next Sunday. I could actually go to a different church in town every week that I’m here. There’s something like 40, I recall hearing that Siloam Springs has the highest churches per capita in the U.S. It was even in Guinness. I don’t want to do that, of course.
Well, I just got completely distracted for nearly a quarter of an hour. Relative time to posting = fun. I’m in a purely different mood now. Write ya later!
