Observations of Life

This blog is my perception of the world around me. It is a dedication to my dear friend Keith Coleman who wrote down his observations of life before extinguishing it. Keith and our adventures will always remain in my memory. I may never understand the pain he felt, but I respect the life he had.

Our relationship in the later years could be described like the movie Unbreakable, where
Samuel L. Jackson's character searched the world for his polar opposite believing that there must be someone out there to balance his evil. Bruce Willis played that somebody who had a propensity towards doing good. I am not trying to say Keith and I were the good vs. evil people, but we had the opposite perception of the world around us. He saw and felt pain in everything, while my looking glass produced images of happiness and wonder.

Keith was a philosopher and many times our discussions fell on this perception dichotomy. Although we agreed many people can fall into these two categories, we often argued over the ability to switch between the two. I do not believe I ever convinced him that this was possible and our brains were not hard wired upon development. Not everything is black and white, so maybe some people posses the ability to shape the lens they peer through, but I fear this is the exception and not the rule.