truly love: this

The Holstee Manifesto

For words that are so true, how often to we find the simple things the hardest to do. Yes I recognized the rhyme scheme, but that really isn't the point. It's 8:30. In the morning. and this is the first thing I read...I guess its actually the second, the first was a skype message i got while asleep. The first two lines, for me, are the truest. I won't rewrite them because the picture is pretty large and it's nothing for you to scroll up and see if you don't remember them. Here's where it gets hard. Although I've heard this quite a long while ago, today I read it, and today I know it, which means I'm accountable for it. And so since accountability is in order, lets break it down so that it will forever and consistently be broken...

Who are you? Who do you love?

I've rearranged the "what" in "what you love" to say who

::I say rearranged, not changed because to me, they're the same thing::

So the questions, or maybe the answers, begin to address this accountability I was speaking earlier about. I know this kinda reads like jibberish but Shhh, I'm getting somewhere. Where I am now is about getting somewhere after. Do we agree that that is what school is? It's more about where you'll be after that guides and shapes your decisions as a student. If you don't that's fine, but still read on. I'd like to offer the idea that education is continuous, yes, that class ended, or you graduated, but how does what you learn translate to where you will be, even where you are now. I'd also like to characterize education/knowledge as alive, pregnant, always changing and growing because outside of the womb is where we grow the most.


How do you live the life you've imagined? How do you relate love, life, and education? Make decisions that may not make sense to the multitudes. As Thoreau said, "any man more right than his neighbor constitutes a majority of one." While this quote can get tricky in deciding who is more right, it is vital because it gives strength to that small voice that knows something is wrong, that knows there is a better way. That voice you hear when your professor gives you a lower grade simply because they don't agree with your argument ::or maybe that's just me:: 

A similar quote given to me in high school by a teacher, a fellow Cal alumna, reads similarly,  

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all." 

  -Mario Savio

For me this quote is revolution, is movement, is life, especially now, as a graduate. My mission is to change the world, to change life for the people I love. But I've realized, I can not and will not achieve that in fear, in laziness, in mediocrity.


P.S. If you knew me, you would know...I know that you "aren't supposed to" end a sentence with a preposition, but that's why I do it!