homesick

i decided to help beef up my posts, and maybe encourage more frequent posting, ill start including passages of gotama sakyamuni tathagata's teachings that i find particularly interesting. i write down the page numbers on a bookmark as i go along. heres the book i have right now:

i guess it goes to the left. well anyway, the first one i marked is from pages 29-36, so i guess ill just take out some sentences. heres the first passage that made me go 'oh!'

"Then, my good man, didn't it ever occur to you, an intelligent and mature person, 'I too am subject to death and cannot escape it. let me now do noble deeds by body, speech and mind'?"

"No, Lord (of a hell), I could not do it. I was negligent."

As i said, im homesick. the city isnt quite for me, although im sure ill get used to being surrounded by non-life. i reallized awhile ago im going to be real sad when summer comes, cause ill know how beautiful it is everywhere else and how much i could be enjoying myself at home. for now, ill just have to put up with all the concrete and pavement. no wonder these people are so tough and negative, theyre quite literally cut off from life. i even read a little article about how being surrounded by plants is good for the mind :B i guess im lucky that my aunt lives in the place she does, theres atleast a little grass and some trees.