Twelve years ago I sat on a balcony 50 or so miles away from here imagining what the future would look like.
I had attended a celebration at The Keg in Fort Worth followed by an after party that gave me an idea for what things could look like down the road.
Twelve years later some of what I imagined has come to pass and some of it seems improbable if not impossible. Can’t tell you if that is the best or worst outcome because you can’t see the future with the sort of clarity one might want or at least I cannot.
People who swore they would be part of my life forever have chosen to walk upon other paths and I have let them go. Spent lots of time trying to chase and or carry them but they didn’t want that. They gave up on the good, the beautiful and I am sure did so because they convinced themselves there was ugly.
Can’t say ugly wasn’t there and that challenges didn’t exist because you find those things in life. Some people choose to walk with you through the fire and to take on the good and the bad.
Sometimes they choose to turn their backs on those who were always there for them. That is a them issue and not a me issue.
I can’t make anyone do anything. It was disturbing, disappointing and hurtful, but that is how it goes sometimes. It is there choice and their loss.
Truth
Been involved in what feels like an endless stream of conversations about what truth is and isn’t. It is exhausting to be constantly engaged in such things but it seems to be par for the course now. If it is not MAGA repeating 47’s endless lies it is Blue MAGA lying about Israel, Zionism and Judaism.
I keep telling myself this too shall pass but it feels like it is taking extra long time for such a thing to happen.
It is problematic to see so many adopt this position of truth being malleable based upon their tribal definition of what the facts are.
It is a dangerous way to go about life because some facts aren’t open to interpretation or adjustment. That particular statement irks me more than I can tell you because it is a pandora’s box of nonsense but there is a philosophical case that could be applied.
But I am not going to take that on here, not now and maybe not ever.
Probably something SQ and I might have discussed but she is on her walkabout and may not find me because I am no longer standing in the places and spaces I once occupied.
Makes me sad to say it but again that is life and sometimes you have to do your own thing for a bit or a lifetime. One never knows.
Going to wrap this up with a link to The New Normal so I can use it as a reference point for something different later on.
Will probably post this on Facebook just to see if it gets any traction. I doubt it, but sometimes I like to test things out.
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