"A veces en la vida hay que saber luchar no sólo sin miedo, sino también sin esperanza."-Alessandro Pertini

Life truly throws some interesting curve balls. That's for sure.

Crazy as it may sound (and it's not that crazy, because I know that you, the reader of this blog, have thought this at least one time before), sometimes when I am alone in my room, walking around campus, watching a ball game, etc. I'll have this strange thought like, "What if all of this is fake and my life is really just like The Truman Show?" Eerie as it is to think, would there be any way to really, I mean REALLY, know if it wasn't? Taking the gospel point of view from it all (I do hope by now that nobody reading this is really convinced that I am seriously considering this to be possible, rather thinking, "what if..."), because obviously we could be very analytical about it and argue things like "but answers to prayer..." and "the Spirit would tell you..." and that is all true. But I am just saying, what if really there was a huge audience watching your every move? What if all the crazy things that happen in your life (such as the one spawning this rant) were just purely for the entertainment of others (referring to that huge television audience).

Ok.
Sit for a second.
Think, contemplate it.
Now, admit that this thought has crossed your mind at least once...

Thanks.

Anyway, Nicaragua preparations are coming along alright. I still need to check up on my shot information and see what else I need. I am getting excited because the day is coming quite quickly--I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

Still coughing like a madman, unfortunately.

Oh, and just to leave on a humorous note, I read this partial essay (by Eric D. Snider, a former BYU student and current humor columnist) about LDS dating that left me cracking up:


"In a normal society, people ask other people to dances merely by, well, ASKING them. But for some reason, at BYU, you have to do something clever. For example, a guy might bake a cake with a note inside of it. When the girl eats the cake and reads the note, which says, 'Will you go with me to Homecoming?' she responds to the invitation by, say, setting the guy's bed on fire. Then, to indicate that he received her acceptance message, he has to use computer-hacking techniques to erase all electronic evidence of her identity. She responds to this by maiming one of his family members. And it escalates like that.

"Only at BYU does asking someone on a date require careful planning, extensive props and, occasionally, pyrotechnic devices. The number of fingers lost and eyes poked out prior to Preference and Homecoming dances, due to creative asking methods, is probably enough to create several new people."