Alex Reiner
Entry 8 - 3/4
While home over Spring Break I got to grab coffee and catch
up with one of my best friends from high school. Over coffee we were reminiscing over how
"far" we have come now that we're moving on with our post-grad lives,
me working for CNU as a professional in Student Affairs and her in Bosnia on a
Fulbright Scholarship. My friend is
particularly existential and when we get together to talk about life, our
conversations become particularly existential as well. So while we were talking the 'which came
first?' argument- the experience or the values that shaped that experience, we
found it hard to figure out what shaped who we were sitting there before each
other. We were talking about it in
context of all the lessons we've learned since freshman year of high school and
how they have come together as a collection of experiences. We came to the conclusion that it would never
be possible to pinpoint the exact moments throughout our lives that make us who
were are today, but that it was a combination of our values that determine how
we approach situations and experiences, and it is those experiences that change
our lives every day.
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