The Journey continues...

Call it therapy or what you will...  the blog has been created!

I used to write a lot.  I have had many journals through my life and the last time I really sat and wrote was around 10 years ago when I went through a "Journey" of sorts working out my thoughts, feelings and perspectives on life and myself.  Call this blog a continuation of that journey from 10 years ago, but one of a different sort, following a decade of experience, a different mentality, two children and marriage.  It is still about me, but I have changed perspective; perhaps it was having children, or being married, or having my own company, or all of the above, plus some experience thrown in as well.  Whatever the case may be, it is time to write down my random thoughts and lunatic ravings to make sense of the world around me.

I have come to another point in my life where I am questioning many ideas, cultural values and society in general.  I am interested in what makes people tick.  I spend more time watching and analysing, trying to make sense of certain behaviours I have always just taken for granted.  I have chosen the background for this blog based on that mind frame today.  Essentially what I have learned is that life is never black or white, just many shades of grey with some colour thrown in here and there. It's not as straight lined as we would like it and we see many curve balls throughout our existence; hence the choice of the swirl.  Our reaction to those curves is what defines who we are as people and each person, society, and culture reacts differently to the same curve ball.  My interest these days lies in why they react as they do and to find out the truths to common misconceptions held by many.  I am on an "awakening journey" so-to-speak...  I am trying hard to open my mind to those things around me through research, asking questions and learning.  To put myself in the other persons shoes.  I want my kids to be open-minded, tolerant and accepting and the only way I know to teach them this, is to model it and educate them from an unbiased approach about every aspect rather than just one. To do this I must educate myself as well and make sense of the crazy thought patterns I do seem to have daily.