I know it seems a little old to still be on the topic of “Enlightenment”. But this is partially what I want to speak about today! Must I say, being “enlightened” is over-whelming. To me, being enlightened is to be driven for the betterment of one or all, to be knowledgeable. We all believe that we are all doing the right thing by coming to class everyday. Unfortunately, college is not the only thing that us students have to balance. Some of us have other priorities such as being a mom, having to work to support ones self and many other things. It is never an easy decision to pick one thing over the other when you don’t have a choice. Lately I have been feeling so constrained. Usually, I am able to balance the world on my hands but I’ve been finding myself not able to cope due to the fact that there are so many outside forces stopping me from being able to concentrate on everything all at once.

I have been putting my health at risk so many times and I have realized the damage that it is causing to my body. This blog is stated to be a “free choice” blog, luckily for me but it’s not really free because we still have to do it and I am still not having a option. Being enlightened is great and all but Pope is right in “An Essay on Man”! We are not God! I am over it! It’s impossible to take all these classes that I am taking that are all reading and writing intensive and tell myself that all these classes are truly going to enlighten me when I know that I will probably forget at least a third of it by the end of this semester. Although I truly am driven to achieve success, I cannot allow it to kill me. There is only so much that man can do and retain. Sometimes in life whether we have the “free choice” to go left or right, we still cause a lot of damage on the way, in some other aspect of our lives which has consequences for not doing one or the other, landing us in the slaughterhouse.