Saturday, August 31, 2019

Life Unfiltered

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 Nico, Christopher and baby Blake enjoying the water 3 days before Hurricane Dorian was suppose to hit. August 30, 2019.



*This blog was written in a few hours. It started with a thought on the long drive home from work.


August 31, 2019

We walk together on the trail along the the shores of our favorite lake.  It’s a beautiful day.  The sky is a true blue. The sun glistens off the water casting a shimmering light off her hazel eyes.  The sight of her always makes my day truer than this moment.  This is our life unfiltered and without social media posts.  You can have your Instagram fallacy.

Holding her hand in my hand isn’t enough. Delving into her mind doesn’t bring her close enough to my soul. Inhaling the same air as her encapsulates me. Does she realize how much I need her?

I don’t give in to my feelings very often. I’m not much into vulnerability and I’d rather make up an excuse for the tears in my eyes rather then show weakness.  But I can’t fend her inquires off very good.  She knows how to read me and can decode the signals I’m giving off.  It feels so good to be known.

She needs a man not a child.  She knows that she has a man who takes care of her even though she is strong enough on her own.  We are a team.  We strive off each other.  She doesn’t go without and she knows she herself has emotions that wont go unrecognized by her man.  This guy understands her completely.

I won’t argue with her without cause.  Not to justify an argument between us but I will challenge her and she will challenge me so there’s a balance of compromise and admiration when one of us cede to the others point of view.  Our respect is mutual in order for our relationship to survive.  Just like our walks hand in hand.  So do our conversations.

Rumors and gossip like to run rampant on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram because people enjoy running off at the mouth.   But their own lives are as fake as the pictures of happiness in their own posts.  The haters like to post their own lives of falsehoods whine judgement of ours. They needn’t worry about us because, while we see your post on social media, we chuckle while we live our best life off the grid.

People come and go in life and it is important that all of us share our precious time on those who want to enjoy life together.  It’s not worth fighting and bending over backwards for those who don’t want to engage but choose to seek and destroy joy.  But then it also isn’t worth time and energy to shut them out when they choose to come back into our world hat in hand.  We will allow them to come and go as much as they want, as long as we stay true to who we are, it won’t matter how they react to us in the future because in the end, our conscience that is clean.

While we walk around our favorite path near this lake, and realize down the path of life we will always marvel how this moment is ours a no one else’s so.  We are thankful God put us together.

It’s much better to live our best life rather than choosing one of our 100 selfies to post on social media just so our virtual friends will scroll quickly past and arbitrarily like our post.  You can have your digital path.  We choose to experience life, unfiltered.

Captain Imperfecto holding his breath until he gets his way. August 2019.






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Writers Note: New Blog Direction







August 31, 2019

Personal note:  It is time to move forward.  I love writing and will continue to do so however, it is time to blog about life, journeys, discoveries and my short stories.  My life isn't about blogging about my life recovering from the loss my wife and kids.  My blog is about life's stories or whatever thought comes my way.

I will always be Captain Imperefecto because I lead an imperfect life.  I want my stories to be different and fun.  I hope you will all choose to come with my down my new direction.  Thanks!



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