> Travis Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Travis Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > And with all the "silliness", I didn't know > > >whether or not you having a laugh at my expense. > >Ah, no -- now one of the post-replies that never > >got sent, having to do with 'the impetuous and > >oh-so-sure-of-itselfness-of-youth' -- *that* would > >have been laughing at you. ;) > You're a meanie. But I guess it's all true, > so...ah...yeah...you're a meanie > and I'm telling my mommy...Or is it mommie? I dunno. <evil, taking-candy-from-a-baby smirk> Momma's Boy! (down South, it's 'momma') > >Debbi > >who read some of your posts feeling that she was > >looking at a time-warp of her own impassioned > youthful > >certainty (although the _direction_ of surety was > >quite different) :) > I'm being serious now. And before I ask you a > question, let me say that I > take the above statement as somewhat of a > compliment. You are after all, decent with the >written word. Why, thank you. <little curtsy> > Anywhoo, if you don't mind, could you tell me a > little more about our different directions? Oh, dear, I don't have those posts anymore...but one issue had to do with the existence of God (I had never questioned that until sometime in college), of which I was absolutely certain, and quite vehement about it. (Now, I'm still certain, but acknowledge that there is no proof whatsoever, and figure that the Divine must have a good -even warped! - sense of humor.) Another was that 'absolute certainty' about most things/issues -- and my conviction that I wouldn't be changing my mind just because of experience* (oh, was I wrong! :P ). The world seemed to be much more black-and-white to me then, while now I discern multiple shadings of gray. It is a much tougher world-view, because I see various facets of issues, and cannot easily dismiss others' opinions without at least trying to understand them. I really do miss that sense of surety, at times: is gaining complexity worth the loss of such purity? I say _yes_. More, it is necessary. But some gentle regret remains....I do think my sense of humor has greatly improved as I mature. (Gotta have _some_ compensation for the occasional joint-twinge and inability to stay up all night partying...) *Note that I do not say "age," because merely growing older doesn't confer any wisdom; without living, making decisions and mistakes, and recovering from those, there is little mental or emotional growth. That's what I recall...and no cracks about memory, you young whippersnapper! <huge grin at the memory of dashing about, cracking the bullwhip my grandfather'd given me, and yelling "Hiiigh-YA!"> Debbi By Second Grade I Was A Confirmed Whip-Wielder Maru ;) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
