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Flying or Bound ?- A treatise on birthdays and history.

I woke up today wondering if I would really identify
with being 30 finally. No. Apart from friends who say 30 isn't
not bad that its 31 the really gets to you., I just end up
mystified at the flow of thoughts that remind me that I have
crossed some threshold.

Society wants to make...
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rednaxela:
hey, happy birthday! good thoughts on this. i especially agree about history informing, not enforcing the present. you are free, but only to the extent that you know yourself. and there are so many layers to be peeled away--of others' expectations, social norms, and your own internalized versions of these, on the road to self-knowledge. then you learn that it's not a process that ends, the peeling away, except when you arrive at nothing in the middle. and then you start again.

on a lighter note, someone told me (a week before my 30th birthday) that you go to heaven when you turn 30. and, cheezy as it sounds, it really helped. like i'm going around again, but on a different plane. enjoy the ride, at least.

and thanks for your poetic thoughts on anonymity/honesty (and the surprise visit)!

*smiles* red.

[Edited on Jan 07, 2003]
wisp:
Hmm.. Peeling away. I like that imagery. I am reading this interesting
book about the mind by this Kundalini practitioner whom posits that
we don't nec. peel away parts of our mind in the way, but that by categorizing
the aspects of perception we are better able to cope with them.

I completely agree with habituation and past all contributing weight keeping
one from being entirely flexible and spontenious and seeing them for the
past they are can help keep them from owning your present and future.

Thxnks for dropping by!
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Considering that my self-proclaimned occupation (is there any
other way?) is irritant I figured I might just join the journal fray
by occasional snarky comments and maybe *gasp* even some
self exposure[1].

[1] As much as allowed to get by the internal self-censoring.