"It seemed to me that if we were going to be elevating freedom to be the defining principle of what we're about as a culture and a nation, we ought to take a careful look at what freedom in practice brings. One of the ways of surrendering freedom is to actually have convictions. And a way of further surrendering freedom is to spend quite a bit of time acting on those convictions. [There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough. It's necessary but not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom - what you give it up for - that matters]."
//Jonathan Franzen; The Wide Shot (Time Magazine)
Just feel like there's been a lot of upheaval in the first week of school for some reason. It's easy when you're in the safe sanctuary of people who know and love you for who you are. It's no longer the same when you're out there. I just hope my last two years of law school will be so full of memories that when I leave, I can say that not every step of the way was easy, but every step of journey was worth the pain.
"It seemed to me that if we were going to be elevating freedom to be the defining principle of what we're about as a culture and a nation, we ought to take a careful look at what freedom in practice brings. One of the ways of surrendering freedom is to actually have convictions. And a way of further surrendering freedom is to spend quite a bit of time acting on those convictions. [There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough. It's necessary but not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom - what you give it up for - that matters]."
//Jonathan Franzen; The Wide Shot (Time Magazine)
Just feel like there's been a lot of upheaval in the first week of school for some reason. It's easy when you're in the safe sanctuary of people who know and love you for who you are. It's no longer the same when you're out there. I just hope my last two years of law school will be so full of memories that when I leave, I can say that not every step of the way was easy, but every step of journey was worth the pain.
