cu·ri·os·i·ty
/ˌkyo͝orēˈäsədē/ noun a strong desire to know or learn something
Do you ever wonder why we wonder?
There is something about the era of social media that has turned us all into voyeurs. (I blame it on Neptune in Pisces, but that’s a topic for a different day.) Depending on your internal compass, the way you choose to see things says more about you than it actually does about the person you're watching. As I was writing that sentence, the content creator I watch often literally said, “however you see the world, is what you are going to be bringing more of in.”
Talk about a trippy synchronicity.
So for a moment, I am going to ask you to consider why you are reading this.
I’ve been watching the backend analytics for the past year. There was a time when I was much more invested in ‘who’ and ‘how often’ than I am now.
Alot has changed.
For some of you, we are (still) friends. We talk about what I write, and the story behind the story. We talk about how this business is going to morph into other things in the future. You know that alot of what I have been doing is running pilots so I can learn the most efficient and effective way to do certain things.
Others of you fall into the bucket of ‘we used to know each other.’ We may have been friends and colleagues, but circumstances changed. Nothing about what happened was fun, regardless of which ‘side’ you were on. I hope you learned as many valuable life lessons as I did. The only thing that matters now is that I wish you well.
There is another group of you here for much darker reasons. I won’t pay any more attention to that vibe other than saying I will never again match your bad energy.
And last, but certainly not least, some of you may have stumbled into this story through a different funnel. We may or may not know each other. The algorithms may have sent you here. Welcome.
Back to wondering.
Writing was very therapeutic, and it was a small part of releasing things I needed to let go of when I started down this path.
When I launched the website, I told a handful of people, as in I literally told only five people.
And after a bit, I dropped a single breadcrumb.
The metrics, both then and now, exponentially surpass five, many times over.
I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of social network analysis, and getting to run a live experiment was a good use of my time at the time.
I can now acknowledge just how full the bucket of yuck was with anger back then. The stages of grief were like a tornado that wouldn’t stop. Until eventually it did. Then, I went dark for a while and practiced living in the moment, which provided me with some truly amazing memories.
That shift grounded me and gave me a sense of peace that I hadn’t experienced in a really, really, really long time.
Since then, I’ve focused on a variety of creative endeavors and the conclusion of a specific journey that started years ago. The latter's end product is 169 pages and comprised of 41,091 words. The ‘so what’ is that hope and optimism stand alone at the top, followed by a pair of other factors that share a foundation in the desire to influence and impact positive outcomes. I never expected the end result to become such a tremendous form of therapy.
Speaking of pairs, the middle of April marks the end of some things, symbolically and literally. As I was drafting this part, the content creator just said, “An old path is completely done for you now.”
I can only hope…optimistically of course.
The universe has been especially chatty lately, so these particular synchronicities make me smile.
I’ll close with this thought. There are several variations of the quote ‘without darkness there is no light.’
The question becomes, which do you want to be?
April 2, 2025
End Note: If your version of ‘light’ involves metaphorically stomping on others through your words and actions, I challenge you to thoughtfully consider if others treated you in the same way how would you define them? Not all crusades are valiant.
