The fear of boredom

I go to college, work on films, go to church, sing in a choir, spend time with friends, date (sporadically), watch a LOT of movies, read books, work a great job, and, sometimes, when I'm being very productive, work on my novel or engage in other creative literary enterprises. And still, 90% of the time, I'm either bored or stressed that I'm not doing enough with my life. This is why I'm a film student, which both solves and worsens the problem. If I'm looking to legitimize my life, then it often seems counterintuitive to pick this, of all things, to study in college. However, I'm less confident in film's power to bore than I am in almost anything else. So it appears I'm stuck.

I'm so open now because I can be pretty certain that few people will read this. Look how brave I am.

Scotland Rocks

Not that I know very much about this cool little country, but what I do know, I love. And what I know is this dude named Joshua Barton, who is one of the most astonishingly great people I've met in the course of my life. He's a mission buddy, and we've kept in touch for a couple of years now. What motivated this post? An email.

Really, this all just boils down to a few moments of reflection on my part on how valuable friendships can be. Defying reason and lacking evidence, the naive boy still believes that my friendship is worth something. This doesn't bother me at all, because his actually is. I would describe Josh Barton's virtues, but I don't have enough time, and besides, I want more to emphasize transcendently uplifting associations, instead of soliloquizing specific people. I have a number of amazing friends, without whom my life would be as good as sunk.

That's all.