At this point you may be wondering what the hell the title of this blog means. The Life Chats refer to a series of chats that I have had/will have with several of my closest friends, much like Socrates and Theaetetus, Glaucon, etc.
Because I have friends who go to school all over California, e.g. Davis, Fresno, Los Angeles, Irvine, Sacramento, etc. we only get to see each other a handful of times throughout the school year, mainly during long weekends and holidays. And since we're all young adults who've managed to avoid death for about 21 years, we've got the rest of our lives ahead of us. Needless to say, that scares the hell out of us.
So my friends and I spend weeks at a time away at college, studying the nature of the universe (but not really) and second guessing the decisions we've made that will inevitably shape the course our lives. And once the anxiety of determining the rest of our lives at such a young age has built up, we return to Fresno where we most undoubtedly drink too much wine and engage in what we call "Life Chats." We discuss the decisions we've made in life and whether or not they were the right decisions. We ask each other for advice about love and relationships. We debate the existence of God. We confess some of our deepest secrets. We contemplate the pros and cons of marriage and children.
Life Chats have often been the catalyst through which my friends and I have discovered the most about ourselves. In naming my blog "The Life Chats" I hope to not only pay homage to the wonderful effect that both life chats and my friends have had on my life, but also to utilize the same form of introspection in my posts so that I might learn more about myself through this process.
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