I’m realizing more and more as things happen in my life that there is no ‘normal’. There’s the dream of a default that you return to where the experience you just went through didn’t influence you but it’s no the case. Maybe to some degree you get to go back to yourself a bit more, but that self is different and growing and changing everyday. It blows my mind how often I keep relearning this.
And to that I’m sending my love. To the change and growth. To everyone of my old selves who I’ll never get to meet again. And to every self that is to come. It’s scary and cool and weird to keep living on everyday, to be awake through so much development. To develop.
How lucky we are. —Another Day Another Me
This article appears in Nov 17-23, 2016.
Growth & change are wonderful for those who recognize life as an unfolding journey. For those who don’t and lament the past, it’s like doing the ‘Time Warp’ until you’ve worn your feet to ankle nubs. Everytime I hear the phrase ‘the good ol’ days’, I thank fuck I threw out my rear view mirror. If everything stayed the same, most of us would stab ourselves in the eyeballs with salad forks.