Tuesday, November 27, 2007

confessions of a snob

I'm a snob in so many ridiculous ways. and sometimes I catch myself thinking certain stuff, and astounded at how highly i think of myself while looking down on whoever/whatever I'm thinking about at the time. When did I become a snob? Have I always been?
things i'm embarassingly snobby about:
  1. california
  2. fresno
  3. diversity (i'm getting racist. its really ridiculous. I've adapted to Whitworth culture in a lot of ways, and its been a while since I've been in Fresno/around Roosevelt, and so its like I'm losing my right to say something, but keep opening my big mouth anyways. only to groan about it immediately afterwards in my head)
  4. fruit. (this i'm not especially worried about. freaking. tired. of bananas and apples.)
  5. Mexican food. (this is just going to cause me grief for the rest of my life, so i need to suck it up and deal. and only go to Azteca during dinner hours, not lunch or midafternoon)
  6. Theatre. (also getting myself in trouble for critiquing a program I'm not involved with. and therefore I don't know who is involved. and insult people accidentally to their faces. its really retarded of me.) Its like I'm so technical, i just get in that mode in a theatre, and i've lost somehow the ability to appreciate it as Art (with a capital A, yes).
And really, what I want. is to be an independent me. and be Me. but not in a way thats degrading that the people around me. And I want to be relational, and I want to love people, partly cuz I know its good for me, but partly cuz I really do care. And it really doesn't hurt to be Real (very often), but I don't know that I've even been that lately either. Well, i was this weekend, but that was offcampus so it doesn't count. cuz my community is here, on campus. and thats where I need to be. (need to be Real, Alive, Truth-full, Me).
wellp, heres to further refining (through relationships) and humility. (maybe.) ;)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

thank you.

I laugh and nod every time I read your blog.
I wish we knew each other better.


I'm currently crying as I write this. half because of what you said and half because life saddens me sometimes. I digress, no. life doesn't sadden me, what I choose to do in life saddens me.
the part I had most is when we know we're sacred, but we still choose to be dirty. I can't understand that.

you're right. refining through humility. gosh it sucks sometimes.

Anonymous said...

hehe...I thought the same thing if we ever do hang out. I think we're more self-conscious than we tend to think we are.

but yes, I agree we should. and I'm learning so stinkin' much from that book. sigh...

Marissa Noelle said...

I know! I find myself thinking that same thing quite often, lol, and it's an awful realization!

Dinner soon, definitely. I leave for Missouri to see my man on Thursday morning till Monday night... so before or after that!!