Ten Years Into the Future

I haven't written anything on here in almost five years.  Lately I have been wanting to work on my special project called These Shoes Are Too Tight.  The title comes from a TV show from many years ago, called Babylon 5.  A syfi show that was a favorite of mine.  There was a character called Lando, an ambassador from another planet.  On one episode there are two lovers who have run away from home and visit Lando to get his permission to marry.  Both of the young people have been promised to someone else.  At one point he talks to them about his own youth.  He had been married to three wives non of his choosing and all loveless marriages.  He remembers something his father had told him that at the time he hadn't understood.  He father had said that his shoes were too tight and he had forgotten how to dance.  This was a metaphor describing what responsibility can cost.  

But it is also a metaphor for living a non authentic life.  For so long I had not been living my authentic self.  Trying to be someone you are not or living your parents choices or believing a religion of your family is not living an authentic life.  In other words you are wearing shoes that are too tight.  The object is to be true to yourself in all ways.   This project is to chronicle  the process of finding the right shoes to wear.