While I have a lot or
respect for the teachings of the enlightenment, I’m definitely more a product
of romanticism than I am of the enlightenment. I love learning new things and I
believe that logic and rationality are important when making decisions or
trying to figure things out. But I am also a person of great feeling. I reject
the notion that our emotions are worthless and need to be shut out so that
rationality can dominate our lives. Instead I believe that reason is a tool we
can use to balance our emotions and prevent us from going overboard with passion
and making mistakes as a result. Ultimately emotion is how we experience life,
and so emotion should be cherished. I love to listen to music or watch shows
that make me feel something, whether it be joy, sadness, excitement or anger. To
me it feels good to be sad when a favorite TV. show character dies, or to listen
to a song that’s full of passion and energy.
I
also love nature and the untamed wilderness. Some of my favorite things to do
are hiking and camping, because I like being outside among the trees and the
mountains, the rocks and the hills. There is so much beauty in the world that man-made
buildings and landscaping can never match. Those things can be beautiful as
well, but they just can’t compare to the ordered randomness or nature, to a lichen
covered rock with its many shades of green and yellow, or to the way the red
mountains look in the evening when I’m hiking along my favorite trail.
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