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With every entry I attempt to improve this project. It doesn’t always work.
Moving it forward is in the background thoughts of each post, but often it is an unsubtle victim of my personal writing as those ideas, insights, problems, and family issues we face leak through. Whether intentional or not, I offer a very open experience here as I think about how this might evolve into something else, something better.
But, is the project really my target, or am I? Sometimes I wonder, given all the energy I expend developing my personalized brand of wisdom and a general philosophy for living.
I tell myself those two things, wrapped in creativity, are the real purpose here.
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Although often only an undertone, Free Will is the topic of conversations had in many ways. Think about it: with all our natural laws and civil rules, we humans like to think we control more than we probably can. But, there is no real proof we affect anything, much less ourselves. Just look at how much we react without thinking to the world inside and around us, as if visiting birds who demand peanuts are our masters.
Shouldn’t my own work be focused on me? After all, self is a common priority and focusing creativity upon it aids development.
If this is true, where does my curiosity about the outside world originate? I realize it isn’t possible to avoid environmental influences, so other people’s work will contaminate mine. But I still don’t like that. Surely it is possible to distill my own thoughts.
Or is it?