Before Becoming Postless

It occurs to be that I harp on the need to not create posts when navigating through life without giving the required precursor step of being centered in oneself first. Without that center, without knowing who one are underneath all the labels and external influence, not creating posts can cause one to be buffeted about like a rubber duck in a toddler-filled kiddie pool.  When our sense of self definition hasn't been determined, and by determined I don't mean some static list of characteristics and qualities but more an indescribable form of self, without posts acting as signs its far too easy to allow others to decide who we are.

Unfortunately the process of discovering the layers of one's true self begins with silence, with opening the space in one's life for change and insight. Most of us come to silence through the lack of interaction with others.  A break-up, a move to a new city. And the space has to be peppered with moments without noise, without the myriad of electronic distractions that fill our souls with static. Most people never take the time, are frightened of the quiet, and so the process of discovering the true self takes years and decades longer than it could.

Believe it or not there's actually a song by Twenty-One Pilots talking about that silence called Car Radio.

Without center and without posts a person's definition of self becomes mailable with the impressions of others. What they think of as important and who they perceive (or desire) us to be.  What on Earth, it may be asked, does this ongoing diatribe about posts and center have to do with art?  Art as defined by self or art as defined by what others think.  Art as a way to experience the viewing of the world in a different way or to produce a product for the masses.  The continual push back against those with intentions good or bad to change a style or a technique through education or influence.  And this push becomes all the more important as I enter more into the field of selling my work to the public. 

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