Taking the Plunge

Is it real? Is it in my mind? Or is it just me?

It is my intention to purge the rushing current of thought from my mind.  Often I find myself wandering along a string of thoughts and find that I ran out of bread crumbs some time ago and cannot remember how I got to where I am.  Much like your mind at work driving a long distance, as John Steinbeck once considered it; he noticed there is an infinitude of creativity when driving: you design houses you'll never build, and plan gardens you will never plant.  Tracing the bewildered mind will not be much like one friend would inquire about life with another, it will be a dive into the inner mind of just one friend.  More than anything: if you had skeptic, thoughtful, existential friend it would be like tapping into his brain.  I am a humble author, but I fight the same fight you do in taking a deeper look into the unanswered questions anyone has about life--Why am I here? What am I here to do? Why does this event and this particular time trigger a dead sprint into reflection and pondering?

Each entry will hold the world to light and examine it for what it really is.  Is it real(ity)? Is it in my mind; is it made up? Or is this train of though a problem of subjection or perception--is it just me?  Think of it in terms of Rene Descartes, "I think therefore I am."  Do I think because I exist, or do I exist because I think?  Consider also the commonly excepted phrase, "Insanity is repeating the same process and expecting a different result."  What if I don't expect a different result, but have the simple curiosity to repeat the process just to see if the same thing happens: am I, then, insane?  Am I anxious because of my thoughts? Or do my thoughts make me anxious?  These are the thoughts and ways of thinking that I want to introduce and examine with you, reader.

Its hard to determine what topic these posts will be about, since the flavor will triggered by a word, or action--call it a synesthesic mixture in my mind, where one stimulation is coerced with another.

Nothing is off limits for these posts, and I hope that pushing the envelope becomes a habit and that learning becomes a staple.

I have a thirst for knowledge and for meaning, and I want to uncover the truth as I hope you do.

With the motivation in ink I ask you to prepare yourself for a journey into (self) exploration.  Pack lightly, though, because the weight of ideas can grow to be almost too much to bear; and the trail too often seems to go cold in chasing a fleeting thought.

Let's try to make sense of the questions and curiosities in life that come with many perplexities or evade us completely.  I am at the edge of adventure, and I am ready to take the plunge; I am diving into the unknown, and I offer a hand to hold if my journey seems to suit you.