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I’m always the last to know about things and this is no exception. Nightshift nurse practitioner at PTMC.

Hi, everyone! Hope you guys have room for one more? ᥫ᭡

— @ryguuy

What made you interested in theory?

Hi, anon. Thank you for this. I never really get the chance to talk about this specific interest with anyone, so I’m pleasantly surprised!

When I got to BU, I was insistent on studying politics and political theory. They were my favorite classes when I was a first year student, but I ultimately opted to move forward with nursing since it seemed like it had more job security.

Anyways. I grew up in a strict Christian household and a lot of my upbringing was engrossed in resentment for a wide variety of things. I turned to political theory, especially Nietzsche who had a lot of criticism on Christianity. I’m not shunning those who are Christian, but it was interesting to read words on paper that represented how I felt. There’s also that conflicting feeling of wanting to push religion away, but also being entirely fearful of what morality and mankind will do without it.

In the same way that people look to religion for comfort, I leaned on theory. It helped explain much of the uncertainty in my life, albeit, it has probably made me a little tortured. Insufferably so, as some might say.

I’ve taken up nursing as a profession, but it doesn’t stop me from having a library filled with Nietzsche, Kant, Machiavelli, Arete, Theano, and so on. On certain days, I’m thinking of the unlived life and how much happier it might have made me.

Closing out with my favorite Nietzsche quote:

I never claimed it did.

TW: Mentioning of miscarriage.