Acknowledgment?is a state of mind and an emotion of being. It’s a constant.
It’s the knowledge that no matter what, you have a network around you to keep you going, even in your darkest times.
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So here we are – 2017. New adventures, new dangers, and everything in-between.
Hopefully, you had a wonderful New Year with those that matter the most to you, and you’re looking forward to a year that delivers as much as you wish it to.
This year, I’m personally looking to [hopefully] deliver more content to you that fosters deep discussion around central themes and topics, some of which will be morally ambiguous.
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It’s less than 10 days until December 31st. The end of the old year and the preamble to the new one.
A time when, traditionally, we make vows and resolutions to be “new” us in the next 12 months. You know the drill:
All good goals. All good things to try and do, regardless of the time of year.
But to say “this will be the new me” says the old, or existing, you is no longer relevant, and out-of-date.
And that’s bullshit.
We get suckered into believing we need to be a new us to be the “us” we’re meant to be.
Like having a smaller waist, or a bigger bicep, will suddenly make the things that are “wrong” with us go away.
Because, in truth, why should they go away in the first place?
Our flaws. Our faults. Our broken promises. Our failures.
Every one of them is who we are. Every one of them is what we use to do better. Be better. Live better.
If we don’t have our flaws, we don’t have measuring sticks on how far we’ve come.
And, unless we want to stagnate breathing the same air forever, we need to know where we’ve been to see how far we still need to go.
So, forget the “new me” mantra. Go with something that’s real.
Something that’s you.
By all means, improve you. Grow you. Revisit you. Remould you.
But don’t lose the quintessential you in chasing something that’s neither shiny or new when the light of the new sun breaks in 2017.
It’s a sales push by marketers and retailers and corporations who tell you, “The old you sucks, and you suck for accepting it.“
But they don’t know the first thing about you. Fuck ’em, and all their lies.
You’re just fine the way you are. You just need to work on realizing that.
Here’s to you, and your wonderful, imperfect self in 2017. Slainte.
In my last post on here, I talked about why hate isn’t born with us – instead, it’s fostered by actions and words, often by our parents and those who have an impact on us.
While that post spoke specifically about whether we hate someone (or something) because of a genuine malice or because we’re simply told we do, it’s part of a bigger train of thought that I’ve been having for a while now.
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I haven’t written here in a little bit. Truth be told, I’ve been a little numbed by the events that took place in the US over the last week or so.
Trying to understand what comes next. For America; for the world.
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