Welcome to the Absolution Paradigm
Welcome one and all to my new and still senseless at times blog. I have been off the blogging community for a year and to my recollection, my last entry was about getting bored during college graduation. A LOT has happened in that short a time and it has been almost a year indeed.
So what is this blog about? Usually, we want to project a version of ourselves through such mediums. We may want to show a thinking self, or simply us for all that we are—our sentiments, our fashion, our experiences and all that. I plan to most of the time get out of the trap of talking about the self in this blog. This absolution is not only one I seek but one I wish the readers can share. From what are we to be absolved from? Perhaps we can start from our preconceived notions about blogs and cyberspace. Though my knowledge of this technology is limited, I intend to put it in good use.
This blog will be my way of offering a view, or a point of view that may match or be the opposite of yours. Arguing with the reader is not really my thing. Perhaps arguing on the plane of ideas is better. With ideas, we can indeed absolve each other of the wrongs we have caused. The world needs absolution. You need absolution from something. I am thankful that my personal life has been one that has let my ideas and my potential fly. A lot of us are pinned by this inner realm of ours, our person and our identity. Perhaps, we can absolve ourselves from ourselves…our shallow and incomplete being that can NEVER be in full comprehension of things. What we cannot comprehend, we cannot master. Amazing how many people in time have fallen because of self-imposed ignorance of this reality. Absolve yourself from yourself…the pride, the intrigue, the feeling of lack. I do not intend to be so original or be so instrumental. Goodness, I am just defining this space. =)
And perhaps, when we do absolve ourselves and those who have gone before and with us, then we can talk of bigger things. Our people, our race, our society is in deep need of absolution. Amusingly, we have more to share than what we think. Setting ourselves apart is at times a pointless enterprise. We can never do that absolutely. So why force such a thing to the waste of our resources? Bigger things await.
I will be kind and I will be truthful in this space. I will be at times biased and at times out-of-my-mind. But that’s me and this is my space. I will enjoy what right I have to express but be responsible for what duty I have when I express. I will be in your face, my face, the world’s face and it will not hesitate to take a look back in both glory and sadness.
That is why dear readers I declare the end of my old blogging life…as if I had one. As the Green and Black Paradigm that was the growing me is torn down to give way to the new…I herald in both hesitance and conviction the entry of the Absolution Paradigm. May we live with the goal in mind to absolve ourselves from our baggage. It is in our nature to be fallen. It is also in our nature to seek salvation. That, dear friends is absolution. Absolution is the present. Without acceptance of the present, there can be no bright future for us and the pictures we shall paint.
What right does a teacher have to paint pictures of reality and of opinion? I have every right. Just as I say that fishermen and slaves changed the face of the world, so I say a teacher is in the forefront of the battles of our times. Converse with me, as a professor of mine would say, and together, live our lives with the aim of absolution always in mind and heart.
God be with you.
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