Back In The Saddle Again.

Well, after a prolonged hiatus in which I chose to hold back on the self-indulgent diatribe that I found this whole blogging thing to be, I've decided to come back to it.  Why? Well, for one, I do not  keep well in contact with those whom I, perhaps niavely, believe read this blog.  I am quite a nut to crack on a casual basis and, lately, find little instance to have deep and meanigful conversations about the things I see, hear, and live through with individuals who are inclined to have such conversations intelligently.

I suppose, what I am trying to say, far more diplmotically than I should, is that I'm surrounded by individuals who cannot step outside the nitty gritty of the "everyday" to apply any form of critical thinking to said "everday." 

I must say, it's rough, to not have at least one person with which I can have an extended conversation about socio-cultural phenomenon in which I do not come off as an over-analytical snob.  I mean, I kind of am one but, as they say, snobbery loves company. 

Ironically enough, although most of my distaste for my current circumstance stems from my immersion in the mundane and domestic, if you will, it is precisely the mundane and domestic that I have come to respect and appreciate if still be completely against being included in. 

I have a newfound respect for the tedious tasks involved in maintaining a life completely outside abstraction.  To those who have followed me in the past, it is rather obvious that I am often too enamored of the abstract and can, perhaps, be said to exist too much in it to the neglect of the aforementioned nitty-gritty.  It has been both enlightening and rejuvinating to have been pulled out of the clouds and brought back to life, back to reality.

That being said, said newfound respect and appreciation has further reminded me why I chose to distance myself from such a life.  Sure, at first, I went about it in all the wrong ways but, surely, I find myself precisely where I have always hoped I would be.  I mean, I haven't won the lottery but I've managed to experience, embrace, and prefer to be part of the "outskirts" of society and commit to it in a way I didn't really before. 

You know, it's easy to commit oneself to certain ideologies when everyone around you maintains similiar ones.  It's quite another to be able to commit to those self-same ideologies when few, if not any, of the people you are around agree with you/it.