Day 13 Continued...

I have been reading the philosophies of Sartre, Nietzsche, Emerson, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Thoreau, and Kant all day today...and it occurred to me what a terrible thing it was for my parents to have taken all of my philosophy books from me in high school and destroyed them.....what an absolutely ridiculous thing for them to do to me! They wouldn't allow me to take French classes and wouldn't allow me to read philosophy...(not that I didn't buy new books and hide them)And when I wrote something profound about love and tolerance and caring and hung it on my wall, they tore it down and threw it away! Could you get any more closed minded????? Really. Is it even possible? I'm lucky to have maintained my sense of self....very lucky.