An infinite amount. Honestly. I am really not remotely the person I was 13 years ago. I was the anxious dad of teens, trying to figure out the world. I won't say I'm "wiser" -- I'm just infinitely more sure how little i know about anything. Perhaps a little less reactive, a little more empathetic. But mostly, older and more aware of my own stupidity.
Wow - poignant. You take me back to 2013 and IndexUniverse and time with my dying Dad. My journey into self discovery is turbo charged by this experience. Thank you for sharing kindly - Michael Brown a S African author says it better than me. "We are not our experience - we are so much more".
Thank you for writing this, Dave. What was different about *you* from the version you wrote 13 years ago and this one?
An infinite amount. Honestly. I am really not remotely the person I was 13 years ago. I was the anxious dad of teens, trying to figure out the world. I won't say I'm "wiser" -- I'm just infinitely more sure how little i know about anything. Perhaps a little less reactive, a little more empathetic. But mostly, older and more aware of my own stupidity.
Well done - every word feels true.
Thanks Peter
Wow - poignant. You take me back to 2013 and IndexUniverse and time with my dying Dad. My journey into self discovery is turbo charged by this experience. Thank you for sharing kindly - Michael Brown a S African author says it better than me. "We are not our experience - we are so much more".
Thanks Owen. Although, perhaps all we are is experience in the end. Causes and conditions and all that.
Dave this is possible however I always get stuck figuring out if I am the experience or awareness perceiving the experience/causes/conditions.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Both lovely and inexorably sad.
Thank you Bob. And agree on the sad, but have chosen not to live with regret as much as I can.