PERSONAL MYSTERY
Brian Mann


Personal Mystery – Over the years I have endured many personal challenges concerning this journey we call life, and looking back over the years I have learned more and more about the person I have been, the individual I am and what I desire, or rather aspire to become. Making your unknown known is one of the personal mysteries I find most gratifying in my life because one learns so many amazing things about themselves. I am always peering into the unknown or maybe what I perceive as the unknown "what cannot be said" "maybe should not be said in words and in language", but expressed in a universal consciousness with no right or wrongs just your own personal interpretation that is just as significant as the most noted scholars.

Woman -
Woman one of the

most fascinating and complex beings to ever walk this earth, the backbone of every society! They are objective and sensitive enough to examine many facets of life including those personal mysteries I spoke of earlier. My how they differ from their counter part, man. They have endured many social injustices that we as men will never experience or have to go through. An old friend once told me long ago that pain builds endurance, endurance builds character, maybe this is one of the pieces to the puzzle in understanding woman?

Fear vs Freedom -
Fear in most cases is the unknown and we've feared the unknown since the beginning of time itself In most cases once the fear is known except maybe in life threatening situations it dissipates fairly quickly. Most of us are cognitive enough to use our rational an think through the majority of our fears. Freedom? I am inclined to believe there is no such thing unless you are a native in the Rain Forest of South America. Even their way of life is quickly coming to an end with the destruction of acres upon acres of precious Rain Forest. We have what I call limited freedoms and every day in this country the powers that be find a way to pass laws restricting what little freedoms we do have in our lives. Most people think that the most dangerous thing in the world is some kind of Germ Warfare, Nuclear Missiles or Firearms, I think not! It is the ink pen that declares the wars, or designs the weapons of mass destruction, and takes the freedoms that we hold near and dear to our hearts. An ink pen in the wrong hands can obliterate a beautiful world community. If you think my theory isn't sound, watch your world news one evening and see how much damage an ink pen has caused your country today. I am an optimist and I believe we are going to work it out somehow, some way, we will overcome!

Personal Challenges –
Dilemma, poor decisions, unhappiness has struck those I am most fond of and love dearly in my life. I must admit it has affected me in the most adverse way. I am beginning to feel that the conflicted sense of self, this engenders is not what I am after but a harmonious flowing of



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