Moving on from old Identification

It is all about adjusting your thoughts and opinions to make your current situation tolerable.

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I am a worker. Now a dad too. I am a husband and a son. A sibling, grandson and all that too.

What these new identities mean for me is that I am no longer a philosopher, a poet, a writer, an author, a creator. Nobody called me any of those, it was my internal processing thing and now the thing is that I no longer care for any of that.

Being a worker is better than a philosopher because that’s how I get my bills paid and food bought. As a philosopher all I did was argue on the table over thoughts someone else thought, eating food someone else bought.

Being a dad is better than being a poet because that is what has clarified me on myself and my role in this world. As a dad, I get poetic subtle perception too. For example, when my infant is going to start crying, etc. It’s subtle and difficult to explain. Like poetry and poets.

And husband. Ya, better than being a writer. Gives confidence and assurance. Being a writer destroys both. As a son, I get to know my duties, responsibilities. As an author I just knew somebody else’s. As a son, I also get the bonus of fear of death.