age: 55 (Jun 19, 1956)
MEMBER SINCE: May 2004
occupation: Full time manic-depressive, "retired" graphic artist. 30+ years in publishing industries
stats: Enlarged to show detail. An interesting assortment of scars and mended bones.
sign: Gemini. Year of the Monkey,
fantasy: 1. I'm paraphrasing here, but Gahdhi said something that amounted to this. Live everyday as though you'll die tomorrow, learn as though you'll live forever. 2. An atheist with a little faith in his fellow man earns my respect.
i lost my virginity: I traded it for someone else's, and it's not lost if i still know where it is. Until a year or so ago we'd remained in touch.
into: Art, Science, cooking, music, reference books. Ladies with tattoos and piercings.. TRUSTWORTHY people, (I've heard they exist)
body mods: Due to the idiocy of driving while distracted, many broken, now mended bones, pulled teeth, and scars. Having been declared legally dead for a shot span on April 11, 1986, I think I'm in fairly good condition despte not being a babe magnet..
most humbling moment: The realization that my mental illness justified being divorced. A lengthy incarceration after a manic event involving the police. My inabilitgy to post comments without sending them before I realize I have, Discovering that getting older and becoming wiser don't always accompany each other.
It's frustrating, of course. I'd come to accept a number of rejections earlier in life; a failed marriage, the loss of various jobs due to a personal inability to quite obsessing over details. (Curiously, OCD isn't one of my sanctioned justifications for living on disability).
Doesn't the very act of striving for humility entail some pride in the drive for personal growth? And the reward for sucess would be what, guilt?
In the past 20 years or so I've discovered I can't view my mind objectively, I need insight from people capable of both detachment and concern. You could argue that everything happens for a reason, or that nothing happens for a reason. Yet, boredom aside, you could never argue that nothing happens.
With that in mind I'll take advantage of the free time I now have to help someone I know move from Texas to Virginia and hopefully look up a few friends while I'm there.
Wish me well, please.
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