Category: Introspection

  • Happy Valentine’s Day Everyday’s the 14th -Andre 3000

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  • I think we all reserve the right to evolve — yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly… Know when I offer an opinion, that’s how I feel in that moment. Change is ok. We’ll see conflict in our lives when we’re asked to remain the same in those moments we’re compelled to adjust something about ourselves —…

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  • I had a weird thought about religion and thought I would say it out loud. What if all of the gods/religions are real and true? What if your life and afterlife are affected by the god/religion you choose to acknowledge?

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  • Recently, I’m having a really hard time escaping the mindset that I don’t deserve good things. This morning, I’m leaning on the works of Stevie Wonder to help me with that. And cardio. Cardio should help too.

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  • Today, I’ve been thinking a lot about human advancement. Specifically, I’m considering the contrast between the technological advances in a nation like mine versus metaphysical advances of rural tribes in the Brazilian rain forests. In my logic, it seems that human beings inevitably advance. And an argument can be made that the entities a group…

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  • Dropped my vacate notice with the apartments (30 Aug) Dropped my pickup dates for household goods with TMO (something July). Busy day — I had to engage at least 7 people in direct conversation I’m going on an adventure to rebuild my credit.

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  • This morning, I thought to myself that I don’t want to live a long time. I just want the time to count. I want the time — however much I get — to be important, significant. “I want the things I do to survive me” I’ve said it before. It means that I want my…

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  • I don’t want my hometown of New Castle, Alabama to have a “BG” — a Before Gentrification — period. I don’t know how to save it from the inevitable. I’d buy every abandoned lot today if I could. I don’t know how to get my old neighbors and friends to get on board with coming…

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  • As You Were

    I’m off the grid. I gotta do this more often. By off the grid, I mean that my present whereabouts will not be made public. As you were.

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  • “Indulgent” is how I would semi-seriously answer when asked how has retirement been. While my military retirement remains indulgent, I have a more accurate adverb to describe it. Liberating. Exiting the military has been liberating. I still operate with a certain moral code and some level of accountability. But I set the bar for that…

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  • My son’s 6th birthday is today. I wasn’t there. I don’t want to talk about this situation until it’s resolved in family court. In fact, I don’t want to talk about it whenever a friend or family member kindly asks me the children. Sometimes it’s small talk and sometimes it’s genuine. But for me, it…

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