August 2010

Now that the smoke has cleared, my thoughts, to some extent, have cleared up too. I’m no longer having visions of blogicide. Mildly Creative lives to see another day.

As a result, my new blog will be different than what I first imagined, and that’s all I want to say about it.

I’d rather just do whatever I’m going to do and avoid making promises I might not keep. The pre-smokefree me would have done the opposite.

Yeah, that’s right. I’m blaming all my half-baked plans and promises of the past on the nicotine. I wonder what I’ll blame for the ones in the future?

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We humans have a tendency to build cocoons – physical, emotional, and especially intellectual – because we usually like our lives to be safe, warm, and somewhat familiar. We like to know where we are, what we’re doing, and what we’re supposed to be thinking and feeling, so we look for things to tightly wrap ourselves inside of.

insulation from confrontation

We might find a place to stay, then stay there . . . forever . . . always . . . all the time.

We might learn a way to do things and repeatedly do things that way, swearing it’s the only one.

Or we might swear our allegiance to a religion, political party, or school of thought, one we can cling to, believe in, and never doubt because it’s easier, we discover, to leave the heavy thinking to someone else.

Then we can spend our time reading books that tell us what we think we already know. We can eat the same foods, hum the same tunes, visit the same places, and take the same routes we always have.

And we can make sure to surround ourselves with people who happen to, oddly enough, look, think, and act very much like we do. Did we select them or just assimilate? Hmm. Who cares? It’s all the same.

The main thing is that we avoid confrontation. The main thing is that we never force ourselves to adapt.
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