the willing observer

We are the proverbial frogs

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We are the proverbial frogs in hot water. We didn’t notice when they dropped us in cold water, we didn’t even feel it when it started to heat up and now we are stuck in a personal dilemma. Do we ‘wake up’ and jump out, meaning we have to think for ourselves, trust our instincts and our friends and fight for our future? Or do we wait, hoping they will turn it down again, fearing to jump, fearing to wake. Still denying what it is?

Only time can answer that one, I don’t usually afford hope to much in my life, but I do hope for society to free themselves or at least to feel when the time has come to wake up and act.

(Taken from my first published book The Willing Observer – TW – contains some unsettling content)

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Reasonable attitude…

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Excerpt taken from my published fictional novel, The Willing Observer.

For any society to work there must be a reasonable attitude within it and a fairly standard idea of what reasonable is. When societies grow together the boundaries are learnt and compromise can be achieved. But that is not how man has evolved. Instead there are personal agenda’s instead of a prime directive, which loses sight of what is important or right for all. Because all don’t know what is right? Who decides who is right, who can be the arbitrator for everyone?

Personal accountability is everything and self-denial will do everything it can to avoid this but you must understand, we are all accountable. Don’t hide from it, judge yourself. I do this on a routinely basis if not daily. I question my motives and objectives and re-evaluate them to make sure, I only retain control by being aware of it and maintaining it. Life is a work in progress and mine is no different, constantly throwing new challenges and situations to understand and learn from. I wouldn’t want it any other way.

The Willing Observer.

Growing up…

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Excerpt from The Willing Observer

‘I was still quite disillusioned though, I was a child. I understood the playing field as far as my age group and maybe a couple of years above and below me but I had no concept of the ‘grown up’ world. I believed naively that they had everything planned and knew exactly what was going on and where they were going. This oversight or lack of understanding is only natural for a child or young adult, but when I realised they don’t have all the answers, I took it as a massive failure on my part, to not see the whole world as it was and to have allowed myself a false sense of security. It shook my confidence greatly at the time, and I then spent years trying to make up for it before I understood that everyone else was making it up as they went along too.

I internally punished myself for being either too involved or too separated, not able to assimilate the emotional and the logical to work together as one. I couldn’t quite grasp analysing a situation while going through it, instead electing to be distant and outside what should be a personal experience for the sake of study. I know now that this was due to a combination of me growing up, my thought process beginning to form and of trying to understand myself. It was about the brain developing and learning new experiences, but it felt again like failure at the time when I did not seem to see or feel things as others did. But I did not always take this failure as defeat’.

 

 

 

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