My trip through college has led me down a few roads and this feeling of being lost has followed me down each one like unwanted baggage. I did things that moved me out of my comfort zone and through the uncomfortableness I got a better look at just what my comfort zone is. By some chance of fate, a guidance counselor I almost didn't talk to put me into a pre-law seminar class at the beginning of the year. I was't sure about it, but the more I realized that law was about protecting people, allowing them to live their life, the more I was in. I started to explore the options that come with law school, but "lawyer" was't a career I was particularly excited about. I'm still searching but realizing where I am comfortable at is going to help me take my skills and apply it to a career that works for me and deals with helping people.

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath- Review

I didn't find anything about the book inspiring. A women lives her life through a women she can't relate to but she finds interesting. This women then finds herself depressed by the life she lives which she then blames on her being a women. The Bell Jar is a book based partly on Plath's life, Plath is played through the character Esther, whom is also the person telling the story. However, I thought the book portrayed a good view on perspective. Esther's love interest, Buddy, is a med-student at Yale. She finds him impossible but she never tells him what she really thinks, about life and in conversation, and this leads him to believe that she will marry him. She blames all her misfortune and the fact that she is a virgin on him. She hates him but she won't tell him. We see through her eyes that he is not right and we see through his eyes that he is not wrong. Their relationship is a mess because they are not honestly communicating with each other. If I had to diagnose Esther I would say she is too wrapped up in worrying about who she is and not enough energy is being put into the people around her.

A few of my favorite quotes 12/08

"Love is nothing but recognition of other's "selves" as one's own "self"" -Leo Tolstoy (Last Diaries, Published 1960).

"Words, words, words." William Shakespeare (Hamlet)