Life

I've recently had to experience just how F'd up things can get when "good" relationships go bad.  The catalysts, the changes, the conflict, and confusion.  I've had just about all I can stand, but fate stirs up trouble the entire way and I have to laugh.  Fate is pretty funny.

I embrace change as a matter of course.  I accept it and roll on, but for some reason this has been difficult to accept.  I've had issues with "how," but now I've seen "why," and been steadily contemplating the "what now" since this whole things started.  I like the answers I've been getting so far.

I could list a thousand reasons why things didn't work, but the things that I love suffice as a list all on their own.

I've never been one to let well enough alone, mostly because that's never gotten me anywhere.  I act on my instincts and things work out but I can't imagine a more glaring example of failing to act than what has so totally changed my life recently.
Long walks on the beach, in the woods, over the mountains, hell I like really long walks that turn into overnight camping trips and white water excursions.
I love not knowing what's over the next ridge and just for the hell of it, sprinting the switchbacks to find out, even if there's no lake to jump in, or river to slosh through.
I like diving stuff that makes my insides tighten up just looking over the edge, and the idea that one of these days I'm going to have to say "Uh, nope, better NOT try that...yet."
Literature, Music, Sports (doing, not so much watching) Art, Culture.  What's not to like?
I am that guy.  I have no qualms with it, and I will NEVER compromise that part of me for anything ever again.

I respect people, and what they have to do to survive, but not at the expense of others.  Chances are, if you do what you love, you will love people and do right by them whether they do right by you or not because you won't care.  They can't touch you anyway.