Prologue – To protect the innocent and reveal the -- inane, maybe?
This is a true story, of one man, picked by the powers-that-be, to live a life unlike any other.
But isn’t that the case with, well, everyone?
My life is not the same as your life - or anyone else’s. Life is a unique, individual experience that we can share with others in many times and many ways and many formats, but no matter all that, we always live our own life, and no one else’s. Some lives are probably better than others. I have come to believe that you get pretty much what you give, and it’s the everyday, mundane choices that give and take our power, make us happy or sad, energetic or depressed. We are on an endless quest to understand our lives, and how they affect not only ourselves, but those we surround ourselves with.
I have made some good, some bad, some stupid, some brilliant, and some pretty unexceptional choices in my life. I have even, from time to time, chosen not to make a choice, either. All those choices and non-choices have shaped who I am, and both guided and misguided me to some very interesting places - and interesting, to quote Joss Whedon’s Serenity, can mean, “Oh god, oh god, we’re all gonna die.”
This is a true story. For real. Yes, names have been changed to protect people who may not want their roles in this story from my life explored or detailed, and who needs the lawsuits? Of course, I have only my own memory of the events to go on, and while I am sure that some might argue my take on the situation is not theirs, and may not even be the truth, as they remember it, they are what I recall, and it is, after all, my life, and my story.
Herein is a whole bunch of crazy stuff that I don’t think I could possibly make up. Get comfortable, maybe have a beverage and a light snack handy, and step into a life that, while unique, may not have started out so differently from your own.
