Sunday, April 24, 2011

english relates to real life

I'm supposed to be studying for my last English exam, which is why our blog has been updated so frequently this weekend. If there's one thing I hate more than almost anything in the world, it's studying. It's not that I'm not interested in my classes, but I hate re-teaching myself stuff that I should already remember. I'm really just sitting here eating peanuts and salt & vinegar chips and occasionally making a notecard or two.

The reason I decided to pay the blog a visit during my super productive study session is actually because of something I ran across in my notes. Right now I'm reviewing "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, a poem I'm sure all of us skimmed while in high school. I'm now reading it for about the five hundredth time. My English professor (who is actually English, which makes the class a little more interesting) insisted on studying the last two lines of the poem for at least half a class. While revisiting the poem, I realized how much these lines relate to this whole living-life inspiration kick that Cayla & I are on right now.

"Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run."

Basically, what Andrew is saying is that we can't stop time, but we can make the best of it. Fill your life with as much as you can, cause it's not going to last forever. See, the idea of carpe diem even existed in 1650. 

I'm slightly creeped out at how much this resembles The Buried Life's story of reading a poem in an English class, accepting the fact that you're in charge of making your life the best it can be, and then actually doing something about it. I swear I didn't think about that until just now. weirdness.

I really need to get back to studying, this took longer than expected. Especially since I flipped through my textbook for like 10 minutes to find out what year the poem was written, only to realize I was looking in the wrong book. I'm also pretty sure that salt & vinegar chips are laced with crack cocaine.

cheers,

lauren

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