Disclaimer*

***This blog is my go at expressing life as I engage in and with it. I will most likely make multiple digressions from the general topic as the associations hit me, for I have been so fortunately blessed with adhd.

The reader too shall note, that I am in recovery from drugs and alcohol and will refer to my past and lifestyle, more often in relation to GROWTH and staying clean. There will be some mention of 12 step support groups (qualms and gems) but not in great detail, so to not break anonymity. 

I have a world view that has been chipped at, shaped, and molded by broad culture, life events, and my own liking to certain ideas over others. I will touch on my history and upbringing in a baptist home and my journey out of that worldview to that of current agnosticism leaning toward atheism. 

And finally, this blog may sometimes read plum crazy, because of my eccentric humor and creative expression, but the reader will find themes of philosophy (ETHICS), psychology, and art throughout.***

~Christopher

An Introductory Tid Bit

I’ve decided to blog about my life. I’m a life student of philosophy and an artist. Life is crazy. As Heidegger puts it, we’re THROWN into this life, into a point in history, social context, in a family, that we did not ask for. The rest is what we make it, right? So this blog is an attempt to make sense of me living and learning my way through it.

I’m currently taking a course online facilitated by Gregory Sadler, Phd. on Epictetus’ Discourses. He has encouraged me to write about how I apply Stoic principles in the service industry. I go into my shift at 4:00 pm today and shall write about it tonight upon returning. I’m already saying to myself, as Marcus Aurelius would advise, that people are going to be mean, selfish, and crazy, all which to them seems justified. The challenge for me is how I choose to see these things in context and respond, maintaining a proper moral framework, so to say.

Tootles.