Me, Myself, and My Shadow

I have chosen to remain anonymous throughout *sparkling rhinestones*, however, those of you reading may catch on to who I am, as the posts continue and the writing grows longer.

I live here in Matthews, North Carolina – born here, raised here, and so far, have never been out of the country. I know, completely insane, but one of these days I intend to travel somewhere… perhaps to Italy to embrace my Italian roots, or Israel: Jerusalem, the holy city. At any rate, when I do actually go, I’ll be sure to post about it.

I enjoy reading; my hero is C.S. Lewis, by definition one of the greatest men who ever lived. Author of the famous “Chronicles of Narnia“, “The Screwtape Letters“, “The Problem of Pain“, etc. The list goes on, and I admit, I am still reading through some of the less-known books of his. I just recently finished “Pilgrim’s Regress“, the pre-story to Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. It was very spiritual, and written in the very intricate, allegorical, Lewis way. I enjoyed it immensely, although I will probably have to read it a couple times more over to catch the complete meaning, the hidden nuances, the subtle references, and crafty wordplay that C.S. Lewis is so famous for. All that to say, that after reading his book, it gave me a new perspective on life, a new view on what I do, and have done. It was very introspective, and once you’ve read it, it does tend to engrave some of its spiritual, life-changing effects on you.

That book had a lot to do with the fact that I started this blog, among other reasons. But as I have said in my first post, this blog is for what I call “rhinestones” in life. Thoughts, ideas, poems, lyrics, questions, theories, etc. It’s all just for fun of course, I don’t intend for anyone to take the theories as true, false, or even seriously. Those are all in jest: as I have mentioned before about my theory that “they” are trying to run our lives via caffeine and energy drinks. I didn’t go into depth about it, but it’s certainly run through my head several times during a cup of coffee out on my porch, or the relentless headache I get when the caffeine wears off after a long day at work. That’s an example of the theories that sometimes cross my brain-wave when I encounter something or someone in my day-to-day life.

As for lyrics and poems, I am a bit of a writer. For a while I wanted to be a singer; music is my life, although since I already have a job (which has absolutely *nothing* to do with music whatsoever), I don’t think I’ll be pursuing any kind of musical career or side-business. However, to sate my hunger and thirst for the musical world, I write lyrics about my life, encounters I’ve had along the way, people I’ve met/known, basically anything I can get inspiration from. Some people will say something harmless, and next thing you know, I’ve written a four-page lyric about it! This rarely happens, but when I’m feeling alone, depressed, or when the sky is grey and rainy, I tend to write a lot. When the sky is bright, sunny, cheerful, and the gears of life are turning like clockwork: that’s when the best lyrics have a chance to touch the page of one of my many notebooks.

Sometimes I’ll just have a question, or an answer to a question I have, and I’ll post it out there for the world to see, simply because I don’t know who’s reading this or who’s not reading this. As a matter of fact, it’s one of my theories that (and this is especially effective in this case since I’ve told nobody about “sparkling rhinestones”) the “views” on the blog-stats page is all just to keep you on the edge of your seat. Who knows if those views are actually true? They probably have it all programmed to randomly add a number to it every day. If this is true, my words are lost in cyberspace. Not technically of course, since I’m writing them on the internet, and everyone knows that the internet is the one place you can count on to advertise whatever you want. Right? Right. So for now, Sparkling Rhinestones is simply a place for those sparkling little serendipities one comes across to lightly touch the surface of mankind via this blog – aka: rhinestones.