"My Thoughts on Politics and Gum-Spitting"
Open-mindedness is a comforting identity to hold on to
in the midst of hating Christians for what they believe in.
I scroll through social media and get so sick of obnoxious
honesty, everyone intent to say, "Look, I'm being myself."
I sometimes spit my gum on the sidewalk and hope that
no one's looking because then they'd decide something true
about me that I'm not proud of. I don't hope that someone
steps on it, but I am honest, too, and the truth is, I'm not
even thinking about that at all after the tasteless blob is
finally out of my life. If I saw someone do the same,
I would be disgusted by the laziness and apathy of it all.
About Me
- Beth
- From "Letters to a Young Poet," Rainer Maria Rilke: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
