Three Words: Much. Too. Good.
A few more: I read this speech casually in high school when I was maybe 15ish and somehow managed to not even respect it one bit. I saw that it was published in book form and decided to revisit it as I couldn't even recall what it was. So I read it this week... and the maybe teared up a little. I'm not really sure why, maybe because I wish I could go back in time and hit 15 year old me upside the head and yelled at her for not keeping this around. Maybe because it was not only funny but so incredibly truthful. Or maybe because I remembered about Wallace's death and then I had to mourn this reality way too late.
Here's a taste: "Learning how to think" really means how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. "
All I can focus on is the fact that I want that quilt or whatever it is that is the background.
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