How To Human?

What does it mean to be human? How about a good human? How does one achieve “being good”? What about “great”? A saying that has been said to me countless times is, “There is no guidebook for _____.” … Insert whatever situation I may have found myself in at the time right there in the blank. To come full circle here.. A lot of people spend their whole lifetimes thinking, doing, and saying that they are, in fact, a good human. But if I think, say, and do something does that make it so?

Like everyone else, I have thoughts about the way things should or shouldn’t be done. I have thoughts about what is “good and bad” or “right or wrong”, etc. I also have this awful (I think it’s perceived as awful, anyway) propensity to think, do, and say exactly what is on my mind … and I can be verbose. Unfortunately for me at times this can cause some trouble, as you can imagine. At the same time, though, this trouble can be confusing for me. It’s not that I’m black and white. No.. I think humanity, almost every human, lives somewhere in the middle between black and white. They live in the grey. Or maybe they live in the rainbow, because grey really isn’t that much fun of a color, is it? It’s that I don’t quite fully understand how we can share so much about our lives online and yet still be against sharing what’s truly inside our minds and hearts.

Anyway, yes.. I do say what’s on my mind and have committed a few social faux pas. ( Ask my family :] )So instead of posting what is on my mind at any given point of time on social media, I have decided (because I’m always scheming or as one friend described it “hustling”?) to create a blog as a space to share. This works fine for me, as I do enjoy writing in blog and journal format. I have kept multiple handwritten journals throughout the years as well as a few more online. I may even have the nifty idea to narrate these for you as a podcast someday so you can hear my voice as I intend each intonation. My goal is to write a post in the morning before I start my day. We’ll see how that goes..

I don’t know what I hope to get out of this experience. It may very well be that I never even post anything publicly. But if I do — (hi mom!) — I hope it helps and resonates with you as you read through it. Some topics may be hard. Some posts might be funny, hopefully make you laugh with my bad humor. Maybe I’ll discover something new about what it really does mean to be human. There obviously is not just one answer. Every day is a new set of challenges and puzzles to solve and even create.

But in the end, no matter good or bad or right or wrong or black or white or rainbow..

We’re all human.