Stay Within The Lines – Day One

A new age, a new dawn, I feel old, I look old, this last week has aged me I think. Onward and upward, let’s spend this journey together, my new life, my new something. Let’s see where I find myself at the end of it all.

A clean start, I don’t remember the last time I shaved properly, I was younger, less, depleted, empty, but, it’s a starting point.

This is day one of unemployment. It’s been twenty something years since I’ve been in this position, wow, is it true, is reality finally here? Obviously.

What does my future hold? That’s what we are going to find out, together through this blog, each day, each step, and a candid photo of me, let’s see if I can look back and not know that face looking back at us all above.

For in the darkness, in the silence, it lives, it breeds contempt for all we are, all we will ever be, do we strive to let it win, or do we challenge it’s existence, and replace it with our own?

20 responses to “Stay Within The Lines – Day One”

  1. Well, more time to write is always a good thing, isn’t it?

    ~PR

    1. Haha, currently no real writing has happened, but, I’ve always written better in the midnight hours

  2. Hell is painted in colours of conformity. Off road is the only way to travel.

    1. Sometimes you have to face change, sometimes you ignore the call until it’s screaming in your ear. Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow is nirvana.

      1. You’ve gone all guru, babe. Wise words indeed.

      2. When the world is opening new opportunities to you, you can only see what it wants to show you, a spiritual awakening maybe? Or the devil playing a new game..

      3. It’s true. When your worst fears are realised, you get to be your own saviour.

      4. Or destroyer 😳

      5. And fears can sometimes be your true dreams realised 👍

      6. I guess that’s it. It’s all a matter of perspective. 2 years ago I jumped off a cliff. Everything I’d looked to for comfort has been lost along the way. Destruction perhaps, or a new kind of freedom. Ego always has something to say on the matter.

      7. Facing the judgmental face in the mirror is the most important part of the story, that person is the main character in our one true, blockbuster.

      8. Hahaha. Ain’t that the truth. Mine is film noir and has confusing subtitles.

      9. Haha, I think David Lynch has some hand in mine 🤔

      10. All or nothing, long live the surreal.

  3. Up or down, it’s the journey that counts, and I know it will be one hell of a fun ride😉😄

    1. Fun is always open to interpretation.

  4. I for one welcome the visual snippets to your decent into madness👍

    1. Or, climbing from out of…

      1. And at least you know how to reply to a comment correctly😄

      2. Haha, true fact!

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