(6000) Another milestone marker

      If you look at my first several hundred blog posts when I started out you will see that I was struggling a bit to write everyday. I had topics for the most part but not a confident writing style. But in the over 16 years of daily writing I have found my way into a style that is not only confident but expansive. My early days were short posts of a couple of paragraphs at most. now I an easily writing more than 300 words a day. I was never thinking of writing as a product of my daily life but I was thinking about how I could express myself beyond my own mind. I am no genius nor a talented creative creature. However I do know what I am and that to me is a value worth sharing.
     Self introspection is a lost attribute and we all suffer because we as a whole are lost as to who we really are. I write about compassion and curiosity with an element of survival as our natural instincts. Our species is no less than this unless we choose not to be. It really is our choice to deny ourselves our inner most directions. I will always choose my nature over denying it. It is my nature and that is special to me. For those who would trade their natures for some accolade, glamour, or gold I feel bad for not only you but for those you influence with your unnatural desires. Writing about how we interact and even more so how we should interact is the purpose of this blog.
     So now I will be entering my 6,000th blog post and it is something to me to accomplish because I never would have guessed this was going to be something that endured in my life. So many times I wanted to just stop the daily ritual and release myself from the obligation. But what happened every time was that I felt inside me a loss even when just thinking about stopping. I humorously like to say that it is my self described OCD that keeps me writing but it is more than that. This blog has become like an old silent friend that allows me to unburden my mind for a bit every day. For that I am a better person and knowing that will keep me writing most likely until the day I cannot write anymore.