Friday, December 21, 2007

Current Effort - My human recondition

Thesis statement? Disclaimer? As close as I care to come to either one I guess.

It's with an utter lack of regard for refinement (for now) that I begin what I hope to be as much a documentary of my journey into self exposure and investigation as it is a cry for help. Sure I mean that figuratively and with equal parts cheek and gravity, but ultimately I'm hoping it all lands somewhere in between. I do plan on being completely candid and uncensored, so you've been warned.

Having been fascinated by the human condition since I was old enough to understand the concept of existentialism and introspection, I've shamefully never dedicated anything more than casual conversation or fleeting thought to it. Worse than that, the thought slices I have thrown at it have often been those typically reserved for sifting through the days events or planning those of the next one. Something this important shouldn't be held to competition with the mundane and it is my intent to write (right) that. Yes, now and again I'll throw in a stupid little pun to keep myself off balance and scare away the over initiated.

So this will be an attempt to be fair to my single longest lasting interest by giving it its own space in my life's universe. The fact that it happens to be publicly available is the first of many testaments to my hopefully comparatively weird nature, although with all likelihood it will be completely ignored which is a little comforting and perverse at the same time.

First of all - I'll have to excuse myself and my use of at least 300% more words than are necessary to get whatever it is I'm trying to say out. It's part of my thought process. I prefer to slip into the streaming consciousness state and tag whatever it is that comes along that I find of interest on this topic and add flesh to it as my fingers stumble over my keyboard. Yes it's inefficient and will invariably lead anyone reading this to the only logical first impression of me being someone who prefers quantity to quality but as time goes on I'll hopefully alter that perception. That, and I rarely doublecheck or re-read what I've written so I apologize in advance for re-stating points over and over, typing gibberish, not correcting typos or misspellings or ignoring most of the other general adminstrative/editorial tasks.

I think that sets the stage well enough for the moment.

I do finally, reserve the right to completely disregard anything I write about my potential future behavior and change directions without warning, because if I didn't - how would I learn anything about myself or my human condition?

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