“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life – so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.” — M. Cartmill
Seldom can an individual’s existence be described exactly by one borrowed statement, axiom, proverb, or byline, but I found that the above quote sums up pretty well a large aspect of my life.
After two masters degrees and five years of sitting in front of a computer, I still can’t tell if it’s a “master’s degree” or a “masters’ degree,” and need to have my eyeglass prescription revised (so that rules out the meaningful vision). Whining aside, I did what I wanted to do, I shaped my education, and have arrived at a time and place wherefrom I can express myself through my words, art, love of rocks and computers, and choice of a future. Not bad.
I had to mail the above quote to Rolf, of course, who reminded me that one becomes an archbishop to meet boys.
*SNORT*
