It may seem as if someone who is as esoteric as myself is *anything*.

I find it more difficult to go on rants anymore, and this isn't really a rant.

It simply is.

After having been here on the Zone for so long with the same people, I figure everyone pretty much knows where I stand. I know that is basically true of myself, with all of you.

I expect you to *read between my lines*. A flaw, I fear.

When you and I paint with broad brush strokes about Conservatives and Republicans , Democrats and Liberals, I get a little ruffled because we really are not the sum of the collective. We are so much more.

I am a people person ( see...I assume you would know this about me).
But my allegiance lies within what I have established as my imperative.
I know how to compromise. I have done this all my life...it has to be this way, with the outside world. I am not the center of the universe. I am the center if MY snowflake on the window.
I am slowly losing the need, the want, to converse with anyone. I force myself to as I have nothing to fill the void that will ensue.

Everyone feels the way they feel. I can not, will not undermine that directive, although I feel I allow myself at times to get my buttons pushed. This stems from wanting to be heard. Wanting to be heard is diminishing also.

It is time for a change in my life, but I do not know the particulars. The answers will come.

Anyway, I feel the most important aspect of my existence is choice.
This is where Libertarian comes in. Society would have it that labels be applied to all things. It does help when trying to determine someone's immediate views.
But we stop with the label. The label becomes the definition of how we are known. I am so much more as we all are.
I don't think this will change anytime soon.

I believe that everyone is entitled to explore and define their own happiness. It is our right.

I am conservative , fiscally, obviously, but you see, even THAT has branches of differences.

I can not explain the reason I am invoked to write this, but it feels right.

I think I needed to for myself. Clarity....and I consider you my friends.