If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway..I will follow
~U2
Funny how the paths and crossroads come to pass in life. I’m going to not touch on this latest one because A) I don’t want to jinx it and B) I’m getting ahead of myself.
In true fashion I’m overanalyzing things again. I have lately been revisiting the things I find as “callings’ and the practicality AKA expiration date has passed on them. I grew up wanting to be a veterinarian and Botany along with Calculus threw a major wrench into that plan. Now that I’m motivated to pursue such a career, I’m also faced with starting back from scratch at 30. I wish I had been a little more motivated to study back in the day.
The truth is the other great career that has always appealed to me is the priesthood. Ok, before you make the obvious jokes, I’m not into little kids. There is a laundry list of reasons I couldn’t be a priest. For starters, I have a sometimes crass sense humor that I don’t think would go over too well in that field.
Aside from that, I think the church should be passing out condoms to third world folks and horny teenagers and last but not least, I don’t get into the whole Marian intercession thing.
So maybe I should consider some less rigid sect of Christianity. Truth is I can not even reconcile that in my mind. Aside from what you might believe and what the Catholic Church tells you, the real reason priests are not allowed to marry is simple. If you have a family and a religious calling, you’ll never be fully devoted to both. There will always be trade offs.
So maybe the monk-like existence suites me. It really does have a lot of appeal. Yet, I’m also now in a position where I’ve found someone I want to start a family with. So that has pretty well smoldered any aspirations for a spiritual life. I just can not explain to anyone why the idea is so appealing. I could always explore other avenues like Buddhism. They’ll live in quiet reflection. I can not tell you that doesn’t appeal to me. It just seems any time I find some potential path to fill that spiritual void; some dogmatic roadblock gets in the way. Is there such thing as apathetic spiritualism? We can all gather at the mall and sit on the bench in front of J.C Penney’s and sigh in unison on Sundays.
I really just want to whisper the Aristocrats joke to Pope Benedict. Then my work here is done.
I walkaway, walkaway..I will follow
~U2
Funny how the paths and crossroads come to pass in life. I’m going to not touch on this latest one because A) I don’t want to jinx it and B) I’m getting ahead of myself.
In true fashion I’m overanalyzing things again. I have lately been revisiting the things I find as “callings’ and the practicality AKA expiration date has passed on them. I grew up wanting to be a veterinarian and Botany along with Calculus threw a major wrench into that plan. Now that I’m motivated to pursue such a career, I’m also faced with starting back from scratch at 30. I wish I had been a little more motivated to study back in the day.
The truth is the other great career that has always appealed to me is the priesthood. Ok, before you make the obvious jokes, I’m not into little kids. There is a laundry list of reasons I couldn’t be a priest. For starters, I have a sometimes crass sense humor that I don’t think would go over too well in that field.
Aside from that, I think the church should be passing out condoms to third world folks and horny teenagers and last but not least, I don’t get into the whole Marian intercession thing.
So maybe I should consider some less rigid sect of Christianity. Truth is I can not even reconcile that in my mind. Aside from what you might believe and what the Catholic Church tells you, the real reason priests are not allowed to marry is simple. If you have a family and a religious calling, you’ll never be fully devoted to both. There will always be trade offs.
So maybe the monk-like existence suites me. It really does have a lot of appeal. Yet, I’m also now in a position where I’ve found someone I want to start a family with. So that has pretty well smoldered any aspirations for a spiritual life. I just can not explain to anyone why the idea is so appealing. I could always explore other avenues like Buddhism. They’ll live in quiet reflection. I can not tell you that doesn’t appeal to me. It just seems any time I find some potential path to fill that spiritual void; some dogmatic roadblock gets in the way. Is there such thing as apathetic spiritualism? We can all gather at the mall and sit on the bench in front of J.C Penney’s and sigh in unison on Sundays.
I really just want to whisper the Aristocrats joke to Pope Benedict. Then my work here is done.
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