For Lent I’m giving up the word “fuck.” I over use it so much that the harshness and the offensiveness of the word has completely been lost in my vocabulary. I don’t think that it’s an attractive thing to use a vulgar word as a regular gerund. It’s partially a tactic to prepare me to go home for summer where I can’t use that word so often, but it’s also a chance for me to grow in my linguistics and find other ways to express myself.
Also, for Lent I am keeping a prayer journal. I don’t find it easy to hold a conversation with God and I have a hard time getting through an entire prayer in my head. I stole the idea from the character of Abileen in The Help. I wrote my first entry tonight and I think that it is going to be a good challenge for me to do that every day.
Ash Wednesday service was nice. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to mass for a real holy day of obligation and not just Christmas or Easter. I missed the calm and order of it that I took for granted in high school. I think I’m going to start going to mass consistently on campus.
I don’t know why I felt like I should share all of this, and I know that most people aren’t very religious - I’m not trying to impose beliefs on anyone and I’m not condemning you if you aren’t participating in Lent or anything of that sort. I just am feeling a lot of different things this season, and I think that this will be a positive experience for me. I’m actually looking forward to it.