Busting Out Of The Cradle

You know, I have been thinking. What is it that makes us "leave the nest" or move on from one thing to another. Is it lust for adventure or the desire to create something for ourselves. I think it is the need and creative force that drives us to create ourselves. It is true that we seek adventure but it is more than that. It is an inbred function that we need to establish ourselves.

But what criteria do we follow? Society? Our friends and family? We would all like to think that the criteria is outside of ourselves. But, the simple fact remains -- it is not outside, but inside that is what drives us.

I stopped watching television because I wanted to filter out all of the garbage that I was taking in each day. There was something that I felt was missing and that was eating my soul bit by bit. But, the decision was mine. I was able to stop watching and to stop absorbing all of what I viewed inside the box.

Some of my family and friends have told me they think it is weird that I don't watch television. It isn't weird. It is freedom in a small way. My thoughts come more freely and are not poisoned by a constant horde. Images that block what I think it all means.

Ah, whatever it means. We drive ourselves but not always in the right direction.