Free Spirit

I had this thought while driving to watch a play: why am i going alone? don't you have any friends to be with on the eve of your birthday?

as i said earlier, i'm reading deepak chopra and because my mind is open to new ideas about faith and enlightenment, i've started to let go of that kind of questioning and these kinds of worries. with this 36th year, i'm coming into this idea of living each day with new wonder.

all this started with the serendipitous flick of a button when the tv channel landed on the sundance network's Iconoclasts. this show features a person in the entertainment industry with someone they admire. in example, they have a show with sean penn with john krakaur, and renee zellweger with christiane amanpour. on this specific episode, it featured mike meyers and deepak chopra. usually i flip the channels after a couple of minutes, but something kept me on this program as mike meyers was in research for his upcoming movie, the love guru. after the death of his father, he was seeking a way to cope and found the books of deepak chopra. as part of this research, they got together and explored how spirituality and comedy are related. but one specific part of the program has taken me on this path that i am now on, and it was a clip of deepak on his radio show talking to this 12 year old who asked him what religion should he believe in. deepak's simple answer was love. all, which i consider, true faiths are based on this IDEA.

on the subject of this journal's headline, Free Spirit. it's my hope that with this new chapter, i can remember to live life as a free spirit. to not worry that i'm doing something alone or to perceive other's conceptions of me doing something by myself, as such. alone. but in taking this personal journey into experiencing as much of what life has to offer in this time i have left will be something i can leave behind for my self.

enough with words... for now.