Miscellaneous Thoughts

I wasn't quite sure what I should title this blog because I have so many things to say at once and don't really feel like separating them into separate blogs...

Every day gets closer to the beginning of school. I feel both excited and nervous at the same time. Questions seem to constantly pop up in my head. Will I be able to get the grades I need for med school? Are my professors going to be challenging? Will the material be overwhelming? Will I make the right friends to help me through my career? Some of these are good to think about for awhile but not to ponder and feel gloomy about, right? I guess I'm just having social withdrawal as I am mostly just spending time with Baha'i friends and relatives. I miss my friends and going to the movies and to the beach. That's another reason I am excited to begin school so I can make new friends and hang out with them as much as I can. As for worrying about classes... I know its normal so I try not to loom on the questions too long.

My next subject of conversation is beauty. Is there really such an exact meaning to the word? Some people would, without hesitation, say yes but I quite disagree. People choose to look at their life the way they want to, they perceive things the way they were brought up to perceive. We all are influenced by someone or other (media, family, friends, heroes, heroines, etc.) which shape the way we observe things and take things as a negative or positive. As for beauty I would think of it as the same thing. Yet there are, I admit, some things that have a greater influence than others, like the media. Their influence on what beauty is, is quite corrupted. Yet our society thrives on what it delivers. From magazines to television, media shapes at least half of today's youth perception. I have no idea where I am coming with this, but it was just something I woke up thinking about.

Well I was recently given some book recommendations by a few people. So my current books to read list is expanding at an exponential rate. Among these books are: A General Theory of Love, The Power of Now, The Good Earth, The Power of Appreciation, and Flow. At the present time I am reading A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon. The three authors happen to be three professors of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). I have only begin reading a few pages but it seems quite interesting. It is supposed to explain the psychological aspect of love and how the chemicals in the body react and whatnot. So will keep posted about the book as I discover more about love.