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Date: 15 May 2005 20:18:34
For once, I'm not excited.
I have been thinking about the uniqueness of individual's excitement. Everyone gets excited for different reasons. Some people get hooked on a sport (like football) whereas others seem to live for opportunities to get completely drunk (its kinda worrying when people do both of these simultaneously). If I described Greenbelt to most of these people, it wouldn't spark any excitement, but if someone mentions Greenbelt to me and I start jumping up and down (as you can see from the last post). God made each one of us uniquely and as individuals, so although people share common interests, everyone is different and everyone gets excited at different things.
I suppose what I'm finding difficult at the moment is trying to connect with people who are completely different from myself, in particular some of my flatmates. Although we're all nurses, I get excited by completely different things, and we don't seem to have any common interests, at all. The only communication we have is very small, ‘small talk'. I feel I should make more of an effort with them - we're all children of God. I feel bad, because I don't get on with them: God made us uniquely, surely he doesn't only want us to be friends with people who have similar interests? But, because the friends that I share similar believes and hobbies with, are so brilliant, I don't feel a personal need to bond with my flatmates. Is that being selfish?
At the moment, I feel like I'm in a little bubble with my friends (and its great). I feel comfortable talking with them about my beliefs and my individual differences are accepted, but I don't get outside the bubble enough, to share Jesus and my general excitedness, with people who don't have similar beliefs (as you can see Richard, your sermon sparked a lot of thinking). I suppose I know that other people, like my flatmates, would think I was even crazier than they think I am already, if I relaxed and was 100% ‘me'.
I really don't know if this post makes any sense, I feel like I've just babbled on (sorry), but its been good to get it out of my system.