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Tim Udouj's picture

The Beauty of Constraint

Submitted by Tim Udouj on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 15:33

As a campus minister, it seems I’m witnessing an increase in the myriad of problems that arise out of a desperate need students have to control their lives.  I realize that to say this need for control is the necessary outcome of a more subjective and individualized culture might be redundant, but maybe it’s worth saying again.  The 18 to 22 year olds who will soon be unleashed into this world long for a unique life that asserts their individuality.  So, the need to meticulously control the details of ones life in order to arrive at that goal of uniqueness often leave me working with lonely and relationally dysfunctional people.  I guess I could boil it down to this: relationships are the bane of selfishness’ existence. Read more