Paper Excerpt

So, I know that I haven't posted in an age. Sorry. Anyway, so I was recently writing a paper that I would love to post up here, but the whole thing is a little long, and a focused around a book I had to read for class. Instead I have decided to post the conclusion and see if you have anything to say.

Nothing is still. Consider the boulders that make up a mountain, solid masses that require great effort to move, yet, they are made up of millions upon billions of vibrating molecules that never cease moving. Even those things that seem to never change are always in motion. The molecules are constantly bouncing off of one another, changing direction, changing force, changing speed. I argue that each time we present (‘come out’) part of ourselves, our identities (which is constantly); we are doing the same thing. Why do we as humans search out immutability in our understandings of self, others, and identity? Why do we crave static existences while even the molecules that make up our bodies and our world refuse to stand still? Each of these articles challenges the reader to consider life, masculinities, and religion in some new light. What happens if we try to see how those challenges happen everyday in our own lives through books, conversations, prayer, class, work, play and every other manner of existence? It sounds exhausting, but I would argue that it is only exhausting because we are constantly fighting to find singular, simple answers. What happens if we start to recognize and live in the fluidity in our own lives?