For my first blog post ever, I would simply like to address what I am currently reading about in Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. Although this isn't quite where we're at or "supposed to be at" as a class, a certain excerpt that stuck out to me was way way WAY back when we read the chapter "The Top Hat". In this particular chapter, the philosopher uses the analogy of a white rabbit to help explain philosophy (and philosophers) in itself. The philosopher explains how in order to be a "good" philosopher, one simply cannot lose his/her sense of wonder/questioning. The philosopher began to elaborate with the analogy of a white rabbit being pulled out of a hat to which mortals are born on the tip of the rabbit's hairs, with a great sense of wonder. However, over time we mortals tend to sink down into the fur of the rabbit and simply never try to climb back to the top of the hairs. The philosopher states that the mortals who do climb  the hairs are philosophers, or philosophers
in the making. Thus, coming to the conclusion that not everyone can be a philosopher because
some people fall off the rabbit's hair  and cling to the fur, and decide to never wonder outside of "the norm" again. The "norm" seemed to be stated as when one no longer questions the things they see or become amazed with the world around them. Similar to Sophie, I began to ponder this and wonder if I too had fallen into the rabbit's fur and was no longer questioning life and being astonished by the things and object of creation around me. It was definitely this chapter that left me a bit shook and thinking because then,I began to notice a lot more of the little things in life.