Many-hued reflection.

My name is William. I’m an undergraduate at Princeton studying mathematics, but I love literature, philosophy, music, and the deeper things that make life meaningful.

This Substack is a collection of the many ideas I have about such things, particularly what it means to find happiness and positivity in the world around us. Above all, I seek out a deeper meaning behind striving for “greatness,” and the wisdom we glean in succeeding or failing to realize our ambitions.

I started these essays in high school, and I aim to continue writing so long as I have a pen and access to the internet. Hopefully, this project will outlast any individual phase of my life.

In the opening act of Faust II, Goethe writes:

I am content to have the sun behind me
….
But see how, rising from this turbulence,
the rainbow forms its changing-unchanged arch
Of human striving it’s a perfect symbol —
that what we have as life is many-hued reflection.