i bought a cd player
Sunday, September 1, 2002
i bought a cd player today to fill the silent spaces. i had a bad argument with my room mate, whos from hyderabad.
have you ever been in an argument, a logical argument, with a person who you know mocks you behind your back, you being seriously involved in the debate, and the other just doing it for kicks, to mock you? i was surprised at my inability to quit, to stop wasting my time. i was just trying to get him to argue rationally, without digressing, but now, it was a shouting match, and all he was interested in was winning. so i wished him a good night at 6 am…
the debate was about falun dafa…we have a few of its members at UCF, and everyday, and we go to class in the morning we pass them by. now my room mate saw a video abou the falun dafa, and was saying , i just would love to join them, you know , their tenets are truth, tolerance and compassion. he is the last person i would expect to have an idea of what compassion means, so we got into this argument, i said its not for you, and he saying the contrary…it degenerated into an illogical argument about whether we should live life by what our mind says says or what our heart says and so on…it was the worst discussion i have ever had….he was actually trying to redefine compassion, and justified it by saying this is MY compassion, and i was just trying to tell him, there is no “my” or “your” compassion, that compassion is an idea, and by definition something absolute…
i was totally lost, i never thought minds worked the way his mind does…
i am not home sick, i just miss my friends, people with loads of common sense, quirks, and intelligence.
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