An Ode to This summer, Why not?
So this summer, my life changed in so many ways. A little back story, a few friends and I went to the streets of Detroit and lived on the streets for 2 weeks. All we had were the clothes on our backs and each other. The things I saw and experienced have made a major impact on my perspective. Post-modernism is described as a reaction to modernism. Which as far as definitions go, I always though that was pretty shoddy. But then I realized something about human history. Eras don't exist independently but instead are a reaction to the ones before them. Does humanity ever really progress? who knows? But it sure as hell reacts! The last six months of my life have been a major reaction. A messy, broken, painful, and incomplete reaction. But the best thing I have ever undergone. I have lived my entire adult life ( using that term loosely here) in a culture-imposed and even more a self-imposed prison. I believed the goal of life, the apex of humanity, was to live SELFLESSLY. So over the la...