29 November 2023

Lately my writings have been biographical, I have to continue changing my style. The form will be formless. Rigidity provides stability and overtime those stable walls become a prison. What’s called stable stops being what provides support and becomes what is recognizable. Any given day and maybe a couple times a year we will wake up to news that changes the way we live. In the constantly changing world familiarity feels like comfort, even that becomes co-oped for nostalgia purposes. There are countless remakes providing a somewhat similar character and story hoping people will consume the content with no promise of quality. Nostalgia is bait, people take it as the devil they know, I accept 40 years in the desert without seeing the promise land. We must push forward, looking back is only a pillar of salt. The individual needs to know their self outside of group interests. Groups don’t exist in nature, by that I mean they are social constructs. Pointing to a human, most humans will be similar to that, but examining a group doesn’t provide information on all groups. The group creates it’s own parameters, socially constructed, that provides the stability to know what is inside and what is outside. The danger is when an individual doesn’t have a sense of self and begins to believe their defining characteristics are the group’s characteristics. A person can grow and change while remaining the same person, a group with different parameters is a different group, so a person without a sense of self adopts group traits as their own defending any change to the group parameters as an attack on themselves, growth stops and everything under that umbrella decays. The answer is to accept change, not rush into it or refuse it, time marches forward and things will happen. We choose to view events as half full or half empty, continuing find the good in our current situation is how the cup overfloweth.