Finding Value in Introspection
My physical body has been failing me for at least a month. It’s actually failed me in cycles for a few years now, perhaps because society has programmed me to believe that at some point I have to pay for a mid-life crisis in full. Maybe I’m on its doorstep. Previous cycles of ill consisted of bouts of diverticulitis. In my latest cycle, my brain has held up a sign that says, “New and improved: Now with lower back and hip pain!” I have never considered myself miserable, but my mind and body were teaming up and doing their best to convince me I was. The larger side of my waking consciousness would not stand for it. I was tired of the charade and began a deep retrospective journey. Wednesday afternoon my RV suffered the failure of a component vital to its health and that predicament left me stranded in a hotel in New Jersey while the local dealer attended to the issue. Me? I retired to a hotel to attend to a book I’ve been reading that I have found insightful regarding my curr...