When I first started reading I thought it meant God, religion, or the literally meaning now a days- of the wild, how the world used to be, our primitive roots.
I have come to realize that I was thinking much to hard about it. Our nature is simple, what we feel, at our very core, our honest opinions and feelings without the added speculation of our environment or our society.
Seneca argues that to live by our nature is the most noble of pursuits. I would tend to agree. I started my MSc because I was scared, pure and simple. If you are comfortable, why change anything? My student life was easy, study a few weeks a semester, hang out, try to be top dog of the university life. But how could I be comfortable if it was just a way to stay safe, to please myself knowing that I still thought or wished about other pursuits much more than I thought about science and my studies.
Of course this should come back to bite me. I think it has. I enjoy living in Guelph, doing the things I do, but I'm not passionate about my work, I don't wake up in the morning and say, today I'm gonna go and grab the PCR machine by los cajones and do 5 plates! I do my job, I come home, I enjoy the company of wonderful people, then I do it again.
In a years time I will be living by my nature. What we grew up with in the North, taking in beautiful landscapes, learning to interact with them. Enjoying simplicity. I don't know where or what I will be doing, but I'll be taking live day by day, and waking up each morning waiting to grab life by los cajones, ha!
I felt an urge to write, but I think it's an important thought for me, and for everyone. Who are you really living for?
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