Mundane Travel

Yue and I spent the first week and a half of the new year in Paris. As I look back on our photos, I realize that we spent almost all of our time in the city finding, going to, and eating at pastry shops across the city (sometimes with breaks in between to eat savory foods as well). While this was pretty much the ideal way to enter 2025 for me, it has left behind very few actual “cultural activities” that would be fit for the first travel oriented post on Hegel’s Bagels. However, despite our choice not to explore almost any of the many cultural artifacts of Paris, we were able to go to what may be my favorite climbing gym, Climbing District Saint-Lazare.

On Beginnings

Towards the end of college, I read an argument that Hegel wrote called the Swimmer Analogy: “to want to know before one knows is as incoherent as the resolution to learn to swim before venturing into the water.”