Sunday, August 19, 2018

08/19/18

Back in March of 2014 I was reading The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
There was a part spoken by the character Dmitri and I really liked and I still do to this day.

Now while reading Crime and Punishment I cam across a similar quote by Dostoyevsky:
"where was it that I read that a person sentenced to death, during his last hour, says or thinks that if he were made to live somewhere high up, on a cliff, on such a narrow platform that he only had room for his two feet, and he was surrounded by an abyss, an ocean, eternal darkness, eternal solitude, and eternal storms and that if he could remain there standing on his small bit of space for his entire life, a thousand years, for eternity it would be better to live like that than to die at once!
"Only to live, to live, to live! To live, no matter how only to live! How true! How true, oh Lord!
-Raskolnikov

I haven't written on here in a while. My month has been spent finishing the book Crime and Punishment and setting up my classroom for my second year of teaching.

Today is the official last day of my first summer break as a teacher.
This break has been everything I had hoped it would be and even more.
I wanted it to feel long and rejuvenating.
After the west road trip up highway 89, the yearly beach trip, Iceland, and San Diego I still had all of August to relax in Columbus and get things ready for the school year.

I feel more than ready to start and although I'm not looking forward to the paperwork and deadlines I am looking forward to the new challenge and roster.

Life right now is amazing. 2018 has been the best year of my life and continues to be. I have enjoyed moving in with Tem and putting together Ikea furniture, grocery shopping, cooking together. I like ending my days beside her and starting them likewise.

I couldn't ask for a better team at the school. All of them were setting up early showing how much we care and the work we are willing to put in.

The only thing has been finding time to write. I spend my mornings reading so much and when I return from work I just want to relax and be with Tem.

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