I’m a young American living in sunny Southern California, currently surfing the ups and downs of college life, and finishing my Philosophy degree at California Baptist University and hoping to minor in Classics.
At a very early point in my life I remember being perturbed that there was so much confusion and debate in the world. I listened to many different opinions about almost everything, and wondered which was right. I soon decided to investigate for myself, and it was this desire for the Truth that lead me down many strange paths, until I came upon the grandest questions of them all, and so it was that I became a philosopher before I even realized it. One day I picked up Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, the doubts set in, and everything was history from there.
I have braved many adventures since then, and spoken with many people; from existentialists to communists, from nihilists to natural law theorists, scribe to sage, high-school teacher to wizened professor, all in search of answers. The consideration of the human condition, the existentialism that surrounds it, and the theology that governs it can be very overwhelming. Life itself, I have come to realize, is overwhelming, in its darkest depths and unbearable heights.
Writing, I think, is the only thing that’s kept me sane.
Once I was asked to put my memoir in six words, and I chose these:
Consumed by Love, ensnared by Truth.
