Monday, January 12, 2009

Perceptions

Do you ever think about the way you look at things? Do you ever tell anyone about it? I suppose we all have our own quirky perceptions. For example; I have always seen the year, January to December, as a clock....always. January is at 12:00; March at 3:00, etc. You get the picture. I don't know when I started seeing it that way but I must have been very young. I mean, really...when I change my calendar to say, April, I actually see a clock with the hands set to 4:00. I wonder where that perception came from. Was it something I learned in kindergarten or did I just come up with it on my own? Doesn't matter.

Anyway, over the past few years, in reviewing the stages of life, mine in particular, it has occurred to me that I have evolved from one "life" to another over the past 52 years and gone through some very different stages. You know, like the drug stage, drinking stage, Jesus freak stage. They have blossomed in my head and become "my nine lives." Keep in mind that I am only on maybe life number 6. It's not that I think about it all the time, but it's there. It's a part of me and I always come back to it. Now believe me; I am not fooling myself into thinking this is scintillating information to anyone other than myself but this is my blogspot. So, there you have it. On this page, I have the freedom to obsess. I'll come back to my nine lives on another post.