upon watching / reading ...

Learnings after watching the "homeland" episodes of full metal panic:
a soldier in the battlefield needs to be strong, he can not be influenced too much by sentimentalities and emotion. he will experience a lot of trauma and heart-wrenching happenings as expected during battles, but he has to be able to take them so as to continue and fulfill the mission.

upon reading confessions of st augustine:
i am just grazing the tip of the iceberg so to speak, page 16 of out of 367 of Augustine's confession, yet I have already learned so much. actually it reads more like my own memoirs. i can identify with so many things that Augustine mentioned so i highlighted some of the texts. i especially bobbed my head up and down in acquiesence to some of the portions where he mentioned about his studies, loving latin and hating greek and math. relating that he empathized so well with aeneas and dido, even crying because he was so moved by their pathos. and yet at that point, though his soul was so sensitive to these things, his heart grieved because he did not know God, that his own wanderings in life are taking him farther and farther away from his God and that his love is not bestowed upon Whom it should be bestowed.