Everyone is a Child of Light

When I heard that our topic for today was "children of light," I had no idea what I was going to write about. And to be honest, I'm still not exactly sure what I'm writing about, but I'm hoping inspiratiopn will strike as I keep typing. During my time here in Greece, I've had a lot of time to do some good soul searching, something I've never really done before. It's so beautiful here that I can't help but take a look at my life, and think about how it's going so far. It would be a lie to say I have no regrets: both about things I've done and opportunities I've let pass me by.

Walking through the beautiful cemetary today really made me take a close look at those opportunities I've let go by, and made me realize I don't want to have any more of those. Starting today, I'm not going to let anything slip through my fingers. It's time that I take my life into my own hands, and start LIVING. When my light goes out, I want to know that I did everything I could to live life to the fullest.

In class today we talked about the community that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. They beleived they were "Children of Light," an elect group that chose to follow God. They thought that there way was the right way, that only they had the correct interpretation of God's word, and only they knew how to live a life that would lead them to heaven. If you did not follow their ways exactly, you were living life the wrong way.

I'm going to go ahead and call that a bunch of crap. No one, and I mean NO ONE can tell me how to live my life, and no one gets to tell me that I'm doing it wrong. In my quest to live life to the fullest, I'm probably going to make some mistakes. Scratch that, I KNOW I'm going to make mistakes, because I have a belly button. This belly button makes me human, therefore I am going to make mistakes. And so are you, by the way. I think the point I'm trying to make here is that we're all different. We all believe that there is some corret way to live our lives, but chances are no one agrees 100% what that way is. Don't ever let anyone tell you that you are not a "child of light" because you act in a way that they don't agree with. You have every right to make your own decisons and live life the way you want to. But then stick to your guns and LIVE!

PS: I really hope my stream of conciousness rambling made some sort of sense.