The Palestinian is Dead

Yasser Arafat, hero to some, enemy to others, is dead today.

How does that affect me directly? Well, that remains to be seen. I just thought it was a clever title for the post, so I needed to explain what I meant by the Palestinian is dead.

I had meant to start this blog up last week and really go at it full force. But that didn't quite work out the way I wanted it to.

So with this post, I just want to establish the ground rules by which I will run my blog. You can read them and then make sure I stick to them. And if I deviate from these rules in any fashion, you will simply have to be ok with that and agree that it is, afterall, my blog and not yours.

Here goes.

Rule #1 - Be real. I don't want to be fake. Phoniness is a quality that I don't care for and therefore I will not subject any readers to it. What I write in this blog, unlike other blogs I may have had in the past, will come directly from the heart, making little concession of feelings. I will changes names/dates when necessary, but because my goal is to not hurt anyone while being honest, there will a certain amount of respect given to certain situations. This is not a slander page; in fact, many of the posts will be about me and me alone and the thoughts I'm having at any given time.

Rule #2 - This is an interactive piece of soul-searching. While the posts will be directly related to things that I find interesting, I hope to establish a network of readers who will be willing to offer quality feedback. While that implies that I think someone will care about this blog, I'm willing to be conceited in that regard for the time being. Your thoughts, whether you know me or not (but especially if you know me) are important and will be given a certain amount of weight.

Rule #3 - Exploration is the name of the game. Some of the posts I will enter in this very spot may reek of self-exploration and that is ok with me. In the following posts and pages, I hope to learn something about myself by writing about those things which I find important. This is a journey, and as on any journey, the destination is not as important as the ride. So bear with me for a while.

Rule #4 - I hereby claim the right to change any of the aforementioned rules.

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As you can see, the rules have been established. The only thing left to do is begin writing. I hope that for those of you who peruse this blog, you will buckle up and take this journey with me. I chose the title Battle Scars because that says something about the way life affects us.

We experience these unbelievable life events, whether good or bad, and every single one of them leaves a mark, a battle scar if you will, by which we remember the most important things in life...love, discovery, truth and the search for all three of those things.

Thank you for reading what has become, in essence, a second introductory post.

Let the games begin!