The future

As I come to a end of the bachelor's degree I have to look to the future more than I have in a long while. Really the last time I though about the future so much was when I proposed to my wife. I had 5 and a half years of thinking about it before that and so it was not a hard decision. Ironically though we talk of the future while we are in school I don't think we really address it enough. I wonder if that in part comes from the fact that too many teachers go straight from school to school and so don't really ever have to deal with the "true" real world.

I love teaching and enjoy programming. I love languages and would love to know more but what do I do with my life? Teach? Government? Religion? or do I look for something unrelated? Management in so less related or unrelated field? What do I know? Here goes!

Undone Poetry

I would not consider myself a poet at any level but I was really into poetry in high school. I wrote poems (none of them very good) but expressive of myself at the time.

On the ride home today (on the bus) I just felt in the mood to write. I quickly realized that I did not want meter and rhyme to get in the way of writing (it having been so long since I have written) and so it is very free-form poetry but I thought I would share it.


Idea 1:
Everything that I know and everything I wish I knew tells me He is there in everything that I do and everything I see.

His love in times has guided me upon the path I've trod, yet in arrogance at knowing what He taught me I turned another way.

Looking back updon the path that cuts cross time and space, ashamed, I notice all the timesit turns and dips and weaves.

The task has not slackened or increased in any way but stands unaltered and ideal for each man for each man in their day.

It is no easier for one than for any other each much trudge their path in striving to come to Him.

He loves us as we come to Him and hurts when we choose "our way" but still He always waits for us to enter in someday.


Idea 2:
Love: innocent, ashamed, unknown, unrecognizable, inconceivable, unattainable, enjoyed.

Love: blissful, strained, sympathetic, shared, slipped away, understoof and treasured as we walk along our way.


As I said, very rough, but that is what I did on the bus ride home.