Encounters

There has to be more to life than reading and writing. I guess as a graduate student you can expect little else temporarily, until your term of servitude is complete. But I can see myself spending the rest of my life this way; making time to exercise each day, planning and consuming meals, yet still spending most of my time with the written word. Words are my true companions and ideas my dearest friends. Though I do hope I never lose touch completely with the people I enjoy. Of course, that’s what facebook is for, right? However, comments, likes and status updates are hardly a replacement for spending time cultivating relationships. Face to face encounters, where you can look another person in the eye and sense the invisible aura surrounding them, might seem a bit over-rated among the regularity of daily encounters. But once one has spent considerable time in deprivation, the desire for such an experience can creep up unexpectedly and overtake the most contented of souls.