Day 32, August 23, 2016 @7:57 pm

I am thinking of who I am today.  The truth is I am just discovering the who that is under my exterior.  I am like the melancholic stranger in Acker Bilk’s Stranger on the Shore watching the tide go out.  I’m the more melancholy realizing that all I have been is the reflection of what people think/want/expect me to be.  I’m none of that which is written about boys and money in the high school year book.  I’m much more than I have ever shown – even to myself.

This coming year is going to be an exciting one.  I’m going to peel back the layers, like an onion as they say.  I will get to know myself.  I have put behind me the uncertain child, the confused teenager, the caretaker and pleaser of others.  I will grow up and live my life.  I have now put behind me the years of shift work.  I have caught up on my sleep.  I have come back into myself.  No more excuses.  Do you have any?

Till tomorrow.