I decided tonight. I can’t go to law school. I don’t have it in my heart.
I mean, I probably wouldn’t mind it, I might even enjoy it. But it’s not
what’s burning inside of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s too practical for one thing. Dad asked how I was going to put food on
the table when I came home late tonight if I didn’t do something practical.
“I don’t care about that,” I said, “I don’t care if I don’t eat. I don’t
care if I don’t have any posessions. Do you understand?” He said, yes, he
understood. He used to be like that. Then he got a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have to study truth. I have to pursue the good. I have to learn. I have
to find wisdom. I have to search for the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonight, I had Medieval Literature with Dr. Allums. Afterward, he and Paul
and this guy named Greg and this fifty year old grandmother named Adele and I
all went out to Waffle House for coffee and discussion. I love being with
people who think. I love to ask something and not have the other person give
an unconcerned “I don’t know.” I love the chase, the pursuit of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we were getting up to leave, I turned to Allums and asked, “Will we find
the answers?” Paul spoke up, “It’s not about getting to the answer. It’s
about the questions. It’s the journey.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I thought about that on the way home, I realized that I couldn’t go to law
school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, I want to go to the University of Dallas. They have a political
philosophy department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unless I can find some place out west\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other news, we’re going to have the giant head from the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival’s production of Hamlet in our production of The Wizard
of Oz. YES!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jonah (is way too wired after some chocolate covered coffee beans, three cups
of coffee, two syrup covered pecan waffles, a couple games of Quake up in the
computer lab with Nathan and Mark, and some intellectual discussion at Waffle
House)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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