Berry College - Cabin Log Yearbook (Mount Berry, GA)

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AND OCCASIONALLY, WE CAUGHT A glimpse of meaning in a classroom. We surpassed the rote spoon-feeding and regurgitating of facts and perceived the creation of an idea, the finale of undetgtanding, and we learned. It didnit, nor willu it evEr simply happen, it is the effect of a cause. These occasions made some sense of our being here and justified our rising to the de- spised clanging of the alarm clock and bothering to go to class. We benefited when we bothered ourselves to do more than simply sit and trace patterns across desk tops. And the result of our efforts - perhaps, now we can gaze into a mirror seeing more than a freckled nose, a dimpled cheek, an obstinate cowlick, or a shadowy beard. Perhaps now, there is a rehection of a tmei embodied in every ele- ment that combines to create a human. That rehection is tinged with awareness but not black- ened by despair because our world is not perfect. We are reminded that just as the world is not perfect, neither are we and therefore, we suit each other admirably. We have finally realized that life - the good life - will not come timidly tapping on our shoulder; it doesnit hide with us in secure dorm rooms or exist in a dormant stage with our never- ending routine of mediocrity. Our good life, isn7t compartmentalized into badness and good- ness, love and hate, war and peace, understand- ing and prejudice; but rather, it scans the gamut of all this and still finds reason for being. If we simply wait for life to come to us, we will have lived for nothing e suppose we LIved, FEared, and loved In Secret and NobOdy kneW . . .

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