Straight Edge Life

So I just thought of something. And I don’t mention this to be antagonistic… but if you don’t smoke, drink, do drugs, eat meat, visit doctors or have promiscuous sex, are you still “straight edge”. I think it’s pretty important to pay attention to who you are for a lot of reasons. But is this the right way to do it? Straight Edge…

When we’re young and when we are weak we frequently need definitions to help find direction. From lack of experience or strength we NEED them. But what of when we are men? All grown up and on our own? What is our mission? Where does our direction come from? What about when we are lost in the middle; neither in pain or in fear, perhaps numb, inbetween one extreme and another… What about then?

I’ll tell you what I think, I think it comes from choice. It’s choice that makes us who we are. It’s choice that makes us. It’s choice that gives us direction and puts a bit of soul into our lives. I often think that one of the greatest crimes we can commit is to avoid choices… to walk this earth without ever testing ourselves or living with the consequences of OUR actions. How can you know life, true life, if you do not know resolve? Can you? Because if you have no resolve and you make no choices you are living someone else’s life.

Do you ever think about this? About what makes you YOU. I don’t think so much about the definition of me, having traded those thoughts for thoughts of what defines me some time ago. It’s not so certain anymore. I don’t know what I am. But it makes me happy to feel like I can stand behind my actions. No excuses, no regrets. This is me. And I think that, for now at least, this is all I’m worried about. What about you?