Being Heard: A Blogging Benefit.
One of my rewards for blogging is this sense of being heard. Being heard is empowering, freeing, and stabilizing. Even in stating something overtly negative and difficult for others to hear, I feel as though I’ve landed somewhere. Found my footing. And from there I can plan my next move. A welcome change from the norm for one who is almost always up in the air, with his head in the clouds.
At one time I had no intention of starting a blog; I thought it to be an entirely vain gesture of the internet generation. But someone who believed in me encouraged me to start one, and so I did. Thank you to them. And thank you who read. I don’t always know who’s on here but I see the site traffic recorded on the admin side. I know someone is listening. And that seed is enough to believe I’m being heard.
And that my friends, is an expression of gratitude.
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- 03.15.10 / 8am
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- gratitude
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"Much like you, I've had many names, played many roles, lived many lives:
Adam. Able. Cain. Thoth. Lancelot. Merlin. Icarus. Machiavelli. Robin Hood. Loki. Lucifer. Casanova...
The jester. The martyr. The redeemer. The avenger. The leader and the follower. The social butterfly and the hermit. The conformist and the renegade...
The paladin. The serpent. The university student. The club kid. The entrepreneur. The apprentice and the teacher. The rising star and the fallen angel...
The prodigal son. Musician. Philosopher. Athlete. The protagonist, antagonist and narrator. The best friend; the arch-nemesis. A jack-of-all-trades and a an expert...
To be the enigma and the answer - this is my choice...
You see, I am human and divine. I am both and I am neither...
I was who I was. I did what I did. I had what I had. I said what I said. I felt how I felt. I thought what I thought. I was who I was.
I am who I am. I do what I do. I have what I have. I say what I say. I feel how I feel. I think what I think. I am who I am.
I will be who I will be. I will do what I will do. I will have what I have. I will say what I say. I will feel how I feel. I will think what I think. I will be who I will be.
I am not my name. I never was. I Am Who I Am.
Now, I am to pose the question to you: "And you are...?"
~ Todd M. Fay (Tuesday, September 8, 2009)
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