Blog on Awe

This piece starts "[T]he most important thing...to know [is] that beyond the absurdity of one's own life, beyond the human viewpoint...there is the fact of the tremendous creative energies of the cosmos that are using us for some purposes we don't know"(Awe, 8). This quote is simply to say that beyond what we know as human beings we are also being pulled to a greater purpose. This makes me think of the work we have been doing with our community partners. No matter who we have been working with, we have been striving to do something good for the community around us. We started this to do our hours for service learning for ethics but hopefully most of us have gotten much more out of this. By trying to work with these community partners we have been opened to something that could possibly be our calling. Perhaps some of us would have never been turned on to helping other people had we not been asked to work with them for class. This higher calling that we are unaware of could be to help people such as these. To save animals, provide clean needles, helping students to succeed, or making the economy greener, this class could well have sent us on our way to becoming the people we are suppose to be. Whether we are meant to stay with these community partners or move on with the knowledge we gained from this, we have effected the lives of many. Whatever it is that our higher purpose may be we are now better people for what we have done. Whether we acknowledge what it is we are suppose to do or follow the mondain drag of everyday life we now know what it is like to be a part of a bigger goal that the "cosmos" have pulled us towards; a goal meant to better hummanity.