“I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition - that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else.” - Frederick Buechner
12.16.2003
I want to go to China or Africa this summer. I would like to do an internship at several different non-profit organizations in Washington DC. But I can't do any of these things because my parents would not approve, and as usual, I need to make money. I hate money. Money keeps me from doing things I want to do, money makes me feel trapped. And realistically, what will I gain from making money? I'll just find more ways to spend it....my car will break down, or tuition go up, or I'll make new friends that I'll want to buy gifts for. I've come to accept the fact that I will probably be a slave to Sallie Mae for the rest of my life. Speaking of my life... what do I want to do with it? I want to work in under-developed countries, I want to have friends around the world, and I don't want to regret stupid things like passing up a summer in Africa so that I can make a few bucks waiting tables and going to summer school.
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