- As women, we resent the successes of other women more than we resent those of men.
- I have revised my old model of self growth (blobs and membranes) bc it is too linear. For example, when I graduated high school, I had a defined sense of assurance in self expression. However, as I wrote “The Open Plane of Voices” essay (2020), I circled back to the same topic with a new/more complicated understanding. This is better represented by sinusoidal function. The question still remains if a “true” self exists and whether we constantly work further towards that true self, or whether at each point during our lives, we are always our “true” selves, in which a “true” self may not exist (ex. if an acorn is the same "truest" self as the tree it becomes). In a linear model, we project towards an end goal - even if we never reach it; with a sinusoidal function, this is not the case - it comes back to the same point vertically but is transposed on the x-axis. Whether there is a "true" self then determines if the sine wave has a small damping.
- For my sharing at senior TNT, I talked about different facets of love that I have learned about over the past 4 years (tangible, internal shift of expectations), but also how complete love is when different facets are balanced perfectly. if God is love, then all these facets should be perfectly combined in Him. So, we should not only articulate the many facets of love but also interrogate how they interact/balance each other in practice.
- Lord of the Rings ending - the power of the ring/evil/corruption overtakes all, even Frodo. In the end, Smeagol destroys the ring by seizing it and plunging with it to his death. I found this ending to be very profound. No one can resist the ring, but Frodo had Sam to save him and pull him up, while Smeagol had no one. Without Sam, Frodo would have died too - we need others. Also, it's an imperfect solution - but maybe in an imperfect situation/world, the best responses are those that speak to the realities of imperfection rather than a perfect standard (what are the ramifications for justice, for practical policy?)
apr 28 2020 ∞
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