First Blog
It's been three years since I stopped writing my "personal history"
I had reached my Thoreau moment,
"I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I cme to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to parctise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, ato drive life inot a corner, and to reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to knowit by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men it appears to me, ar in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the cheif end of man to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."
Now it's time to pick up where I left off.
Leaving a legacy my posterity can build upon.
2 Comments:
Wow! I'm the first commentator on your blog. I like doin' the blog thing myself. Anyhow, on the substance of your post -- did your Thoreau moment come all at once, or did things come to you gradually over time? I kind of had a process, but it was pretty rapid.
Hi Randy,
Thanks for commenting on my Blog. I am obviously new to this, but I like the interactive nature of the process of self realization.
I just saw an interesting movie called VanHelsing.
If you have not seen the previews it is a movie about a super hero who goes around the world fighting evil villians like Count Draculla, the Werewolf and Frankenstein. The heroine temptress in the movie asks him, "So, what is your motivation for doing all of this, fighting bad guys."
"I don't know, self actualization I guess."
"So what has it gotten you?"
"A bunch of really bad nightmares."
For me life is about self actualization. For me it is a long process. I am still in that moment of self actualization. I have not reached a conclusion of that process.
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