Blog on favorite quote from reading...

I think my favorite quote from any assigned reading is from my book repot on ZAMM...“You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge."

I think this quote is great in that we never quite know where we are going to end up, but if we think about it, there is an ebb and flow to the world... We end up where we are always meant to, but furthermore, we end up in places that sort of make sense. I think this quote goes back to the idea of time, and how in many ways it is immaterial. Our past and present are always intersecting and weaving in and out of each other... I think the key is to know when to close a chapter and to move on, and sometimes the themes or characters in the last chapter cross over into the next... And sometimes they stay right where they are and are meant to. I think everything happens for a reason in our life, and when you look back things connect in ways that they were always supposed to, and you can feel this and know it... This quote by Robert Pirsig, above all, seems to suggest that. We do not need to know what our future holds in store for us, we just need to keep moving forward a few steps at a time, and eventually we will get to the place that we were always meant to end up and the place that we always wanted to be.