..think analytically about society... question the way things are... consider how things could be different. Such thinking involves an active, not a passive, relationship to the world. It requires confidence that your thoughts are worth persuing and that you can make a difference. And it demands looking beyond how to make do and into how to make "making do" different - how to change the structures that control our lives.
~Charlotte Bunch
That's just a little bit of my reading for my feminism political theory class. I feel that it is going to be fantastic.
I have never thought about the wording of having an active relationship to the world, but I love that phrase. I like to think that I do a decent job of doing that, but now that I have a tangible way to say it, I can encourage myself to have a more active relationship to the world every day. This summer left me a bit paralyzed at times... and for some reason, some days I did not even care to have a relationship with the world around me... much less an active one. I just didn't appreciate where I was and that God put me there for a reason. While I was forced to sit down and examine myself, which ultimately is obviously a good and necessary thing, I hated it as it was going on.
These past few weeks have been crazy, and I have been loving it. I need to figure out how to have an "active relationship" to the world even without that constant movement.
I also need an international experience... immediately. I'm feeling a little more than stagnant having been in Chapel Hill for three full years (summers too yall... seriously). I love this place, but I have to get out of here if I'm going to learn more about myself and my relationships to people and the Lord. And if I'm going to learn more about how to love more fully, every single day.
Megan will flip because of my recent (haha 2 day stretch) blogging consistency.
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