Path III

Realizing

8 essays

Up until now my life has been an adventure, but in the realm of normal experience, the sorts of things you hear of people doing. But now it gets weird.

  1. Busting LooseIt was February 2025. I hadn't seen my friend Stefan in a decade. We used to work together, but he was let go from our company under implications of impropriety. He also had a drug habit and an alcohol habit. A bit of a mess, my friend Stefan, but he was a brilliant marketer, fun to be around and a genuinely good person. He suddenly re-appeared in my life three weeks ago.
  2. Suffering Comes From Bonding Meaning To Nothing(Never Give a Toddler a Label-Maker)
  3. Life Isn’t About Finding a Better Flashlight: It’s About Getting Comfortable With the DarkThe truth is hidden by the glow of all the lights you’re using to find it
  4. I Didn’t Want to Break Free, But it Happened AnywayExploring recent plot twists in my life story
  5. The One Thing Alan Watts Forgot to Tell UsOr did he leave it out on purpose?
  6. Think You Can Handle the Truth?When I was in second year university, Larry joined my circle of friends as part of an engineering study group. He smiled easily, struggled with differential equations, and wore a lot of striped shirts. But what you remembered about Larry after any lengthy conversation with him was that he was an evangelical Christian. "God will provide," and "The Lord leads the way," would drop into otherwise divinity-free dialog.
  7. Ancient Chinese Wisdom, or Is It?Westerners are suckers for anything that sounds mystical
  8. Need a New Story to Believe In?The story of my life has taken an abrupt turn

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