What's The Difference?

So I've been thinking a little bit about what's the difference between me at 44, from when I last posted here, at 37. What will my posts and my expressions look like and how will they have changed over the years? Life's really about perspectives, and those evolve over the years as we get to see, piece by piece, the bigger picture unfold. For one, I expect my thought processes to express themselves as less opinion, more inquisitive questioning. As I learn, I unlearn. The only thing I ever really learn is that I don't know much about anything. But what I have learned is that, specifically for me, understanding is directly correlated to how often and how simply I ask questions. Besides, opinions are overrated. All you're really doing is telling on yourself. 

I think the other thing that will probably be different is I don't imagine much of it being about me. I'm really not on that type of time to begin with and mainly, this is not a journal. I have a journal. I create this for whoever reads it. Apple trees don't eat their own apples. The fruits one bears is not for them, but for the others to enjoy. If writing is my gift, or one of them, then it's a gift that's not for me to hold on to. So the goal here is not for me to be on some - "look at me guys, I can really write pretty good. I'm really smart, don't you agree?" - type shit. If I have something to offer, let it be for others to experience it. 

I'm entering my OG era.

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