Life certainly takes strange turns. One second you’re caught up in a certain lifestyle, holding certain values, clinging to certain truths, and in the next moment your old self is completely stripped and you’re floating around with a new philosophy that seemed so unlikely before.

We have to allow ourselves to grow, to recognize who we are and either embrace it or throw it away or both. I never thought I’d be in this place, living this life, consumed with the things that consume me, surrounding myself with these people by my side.

It almost feels ok.

Whether I’m debating socialism or talking about poetry or coveting a sweater or altering my perceptions, it’s all part who I am. Right now, in this moment. And as long as I’m being true to that, there is no regret.