This blog has gone through many, many “phases”. I have bipolar disorder, so sometimes I become hyperfixated. I pick up a new interest, then I can do almost nothing other than pursue it. It becomes all that I focus on and all I can think about.

Through the years I’ve hyperfixated on things like hiking, parkour, graphic design, writing (in all of its various forms at one point or another), YouTube, drawing, video games, video editing, philosophy, physics, mindfulness, magic (yeah, I know…) and more.

As a result of this, my blog has undergone many transformations. Before I stopped writing here a couple of years ago I struggled with what I wanted for this blog and what I wanted to talk about. I couldn’t just keep changing things and rebranding every time I got a new interest… could I?

If it was annoying to me it had to be annoying to anyone reading my posts.

Who was I? The cop? The writer? The dad? The husband? The lifter? The philosopher? The leader? Which role should I focus on the most, and which should I write about?

Over the last couple of years I’ve realized something. I am not just ONE thing, am I? None of us are. We are all made up of many millions of thoughts, ideas, feelings, desires, needs, interests, experiences, etc.

It’s not that simple.

We are each the sum of our parts, and more. And this is a blog, isn’t it? No need to rebrand and start over. I can just write, and write, and write, and write 😀

I feel like I’ve had this realization and forgot it, then remembered it… I dunno. My mind is a strange place haha.

Moral of the story? Don’t confine yourself to a label, or a box. You are so much more than just one thing. I’ve never met a human being who, with all of their pieces and loves and eccentricities and creativities, could be confined by any one single category.

It just doesn’t work like that.

Don’t limit yourself. We were made in the image of an almighty and creatively masterful Creator. Live that.

Until next time,
-Jon