In My Entirely Biased Yet Scripturally Upheld Opinion

I am new the world of blogging, and I am going to embrace the cliché introductory post. I was told as a 7th grader never to incorporate cliches into my writing. But isn't it cliche to hate cliches? There is no escaping them. So, here I am, wrapping my arms around the welcome blog. Its a good first step in my opinion.

And that is what a blog is. It is my opinion. You are reading on your own free will, knowing that everything posted here is filtered through an entirely biased one-woman edit process. I have been a journaler most of my life. Compulsive really. I was afraid that i would forget something. Looking back, all of those incredible thoughts are contained to spiral notebooks, not easily shared with a hungry world. Why not blog?

If you care to know, I am a senior in high school. I really love Jesus. I spend more time committing scripture to memory than I do the things that I will be graded on. I have been in AP classes throughout high school, and done fairly well. I love to learn, but I am a pragmatic learner. I want to know and master that which will be beneficial. When did school become a "for-the-sake-of-it" institution? Is it not supposed to be practical? (I claim to be free of senioritis, but maybe I am tainted) I devote a lot of time outside of school to reading and educating myself further, to the things which have a greater importance than a grade.

I have been writing a lot of college applications recently. The fancy schools don't restrain brilliance with a prompt, but allow you to test your wings. Naturally, I discussed man's incapacity to look beyond a selfish world view due to a compulsive pursuit of comfort. In this, I was able to explore, in the context of the gospel, what purpose do I have here? If I was not created for comfort and self-fulfillment, what then is my purpose? My purpose, I believe, in my biased yet yet scripturally upheld opinion, that my purpose is to love God, love his people, and to seek his will on Earth.

What a beautiful purpose for a pragmatic person as I am not limited by this pursuit. No matter the purposeless of a class, or a lecture, there can be fulfillment. Beyond high school, college is not merely a means to success materially, but the means to equip myself to better serve this purpose.

Comfort and happiness are so damn fragile. I swore that I was the misfit child because here I am in southern Orange County, yet I couldn't bring myself to be content. Turns out, the only lasting joy was found in living the life that I was created to live. We aren't here by any cosmic accident. We have purpose, and real life is found in Christ.