Confession

I'm a Christian male, but I get horny. Am I alone in this? Is this wrong? Is there a way to make it stop?

No Place for a Generalist

World, I'm thrilled that we live in a culture of endless discovery and constant expansion of thought. I really am. It's an exciting time. But it's time to stop...

Or at least pause. A year, or two would do the trick. Music, sports, books, television, movies, and list goes on...the podcasts, blogs (yes, the irony dawns on me too), message boards, YouTube clips, Twitter feeds, Facebook statuses, video games, TV shows, webcomics, news updates: it's all getting to be too much. I only have so much time, and I don't know how my friends follow so many things and still manage to live outside of their computer, for a few hours at least. But dear humorous and handsome writer, you say, you cannot possibly follow everything. You couldn't even do that before the Internet. True, I certainly cannot keep up with it all, and I'm okay with that. It's a little difficult because I want to know all I can. I eat knowledge up like a quesadilla. It can be a curse, like the quesadilla can also be in your stomach a few hours later, but I've come to grips that I won't ever be an expert in everything. Well, you reply, the solution is to figure out what you're interested in and stick with those things. You should be able to keep up with the subjects you like, right?

Wrong. I can't even do that. You know why? I'm a generalist, and there's no place in this modern world for us. I wouldn't consider myself an expert in anything, but I know a little about a lot, and am at least a little interested in a plethora of subjects. I've already referenced my appetite for learning, which compounds the problem. You may look at me, if you got the chance anyway, and think that I like these bands, and watch these TV shows/movies, and read these blogs (Because who reads paper books anymore? Oh...you do? Sorry.), and you might be right, but that's not all I like. I don't like getting pigeonholed into a category for anything. I don't think anyone does, but my real point is that because I like a variety of things, that makes it near impossible to keep up with all of them. There's only so much time, and if I sit in front of my computer all my life, am I really living? I submit not.

Prologue

I'm starting over with this blog. I'll still write about college football, hopefully more frequently (sorry about that), but I feel this blog needs a fresh start, and the reason is selfish. I need a place to voice opinions and thoughts that I don't want anyone I actually know to realize I have. It's not that I'm fake or superficial with my friends. I am actually pretty open about things. But there are thoughts that emerge that scare me, and they would scare my friends to know I have these thoughts. In short, I need this space to express these things. Readers will either sympathize or condemn me for them and that's fine, but they need to be written so I can either see how true or false it is.