I Think I'm a 17th Century Person

[phantasm]

My heart is wired for rationality.

My mind is a pressure cooker for knowledge and information.

My heart longs for reality.

My mind likes to chew the cud and has 1000 stomachs where the cow only has three.

I grew up loving theology and philosophy.

I love exploring the world of ideas.

My heart isn't much of a feeler.

Sometimes I have to think my way into emotions I "should" be feeling.

My mind is my overseer, my governor, my North Star.

My heart plays second fiddle and that's where it's going to stay, damn it, from now 'til my dying breath.

I want to hop in a Tardis or a Delorean and head for Europe and the17th Century.

I want to be one of those guys discovering new stuff, finding new planets in our own star system, inventing machines in their barns.

I think I would fit right in. I have the mind and the temperament. All I need to do is re-teach myself algebra.

'Cause the world I was born into has skipped off.

It's emigrated into a land called La-La.

They skip around singing sha-na-na-na--na

They dance around a fire and burn their bras

They say they admire wit and balls.

They say, "Get enthusiasm and you'll go far!"

They want to be angry and cast blame on everyone other than themselves as if it were a magic spell that can burn away all their woes.

No one wants to apply their mind and think their way out of their problems anymore.

Education has been circling the drain for the entire time I've been alive,

and I went to a good high school. But my natural talents weren't nurtured by the church or the academy, not really.

I am an alien.

I am a foreigner.

I am the wanderer looking in vain for a port of call.

I am an alchemist in a world of keg parties.

I am homeless.

I don't feel welcome in this world I was born into and call home.

Is there anyone out there who embraces optimism, objectivity and the life of the mind anymore? Am I all alone?

Sigh.............................................................................................................................................................................

[phantasm]

I was depressed and inspired by this article I stumbled across:
How feelings took over the world.

[darkness0within]

Not many seem to want to their hands dirty or strive these days for the important things in life. A sad inditment of our times.

Very well written piece Phantasm.


Though I don't think you would of liked the 17th century.