The Armor That Becomes a Cage
The armor you forge as a teenager often becomes the very cage that locks you in as an adult.
Reflections
Short journal entries, honest thoughts, and moments of clarity captured in words.
The armor you forge as a teenager often becomes the very cage that locks you in as an adult.
To this day, my kids carry the emotional echo and fear of the angry man I was back then. I would spend a lifetime learning to overcome that rage.
I have spent the last ten years living completely alone in absolute silence. It was a decade of profound solitude I didn't know I needed.
Those empty highway miles became my classroom. I recognized echoes of profound spiritual truths in the motivational tapes — principles that harmonized with scripture I had carried since I was seventeen.
In my twenties I was driven by clawing, desperate fear. Today I work twelve hours a day not because I am running away from poverty, but because I am running toward a clear, beautiful purpose.