Title: Lite n Dark

Gender: Male

Age: 47

Sun Sign: Aries

Chinese Sign: Water Tiger

Location: Traverse City, MI

There are many types of people.  Those that are loyal and careful and keep their interest's at heart and those who roam, and break their life apart.  I wish I could be the man who rejected his wayward tendacies to seek the horizon instead of the comfort of the familiar.

I often reflect in troubled times like these around us, why I couldn't be something else, or more, or different than I am for it would be less troubling to those who love me, support me, and somehow feel responsible for my condition, despite the fact that they are not.

No, for it is me who choose this life, good or bad, and the path it leads me to.  For I have truly chosen a path that which the world seldom takes.  For when I saw the adventures that could be had in the “out there” instead of “here,” I became smitten with the love of the future and the things just out of reach in the right now.

A curse indeed.

But a curse I have grown to love. 

Like the love I seek to follow me the whole day through.  Like the dream of my own true heart's desire to be known for who I really am, instead of what I've tricked myself into being. 

I've made every mistake there is to make I think.  I've pushed when I needed to pull and ran when I needed to lay still.  I talked when I needed to listen and yet the best of all, which heals everything, I give when the rest of the world says I should take.  And to answer “who are you?” I can only say, “I'm Human.”

And for all that…I believe My Character is my fate.

Thus, I risk often.  Moving my feet to the open horizon.

All because, I want to roam a road in unfamiliar country to satisfy my lust for adventure and sometimes unfortunate folly.  I promise myself and others, the folly is not intentional and I beg forgiveness for the parts of me complicit in the deal.

I do forgive that which is lost due to risk and then risk even more than I may dare contemplate.  It sometimes saddens me that it gets of hand. 

I often weep from the weight of it, but plough forward anyway, carrying the ideal and holding up the optimism needed to will the changes forward to succeed again.

Where ever did I get optimism in the face of all gloom in the world?  From life of course.  Despite the negativity I see, I still hear life cheering me to go on and make the best what I have and get all my talents in shape for the next step.

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