Reply to comment

Digression:

I am thinking about the style an eighteen year old should use when writing about something like the relationship between the brain and body. It’s funny because I feel that because I am so young, I do not have the right to try to say something profound. To clarify, profound to me is something that is true (as close to the bottom turtle as I can get at that point).

But I do have some “true” things to say. This forum might not be the best place for them. I find myself sort of fearful of posting something that I put myself into on this forum because it is so public. We will all read it and judge it. I want to write something largely meaningful but I am also not going to sit forever working on a treatise to post on the esem wall. That would be pretentious.

Fear of being perceived as pretentious is also a factor in my writing on this course forum. I just talked with my friend here about whether what I wrote earlier was pretentious. She said most of the things said in her esem are pretentious.

It seems unfair to fear being pretentious when I just want to write something without putting in a lot of qualifiers. So what if we are just 18, young things with relatively little life experience. That experience is worth something, isn’t it? I’ll never be 18 in November again; I should try to capture that moment now. All of us in class reading the posts know that the writing is coming from an eighteen year old, take that as you may. Hopefully when I am 34, I won’t have to worry about the perception of my posts on an online forum.