If the random comments left on my blog by some Anonymous character (which sounds alot like how my mother's ghost writer would write!) are any indication of how my trip to Mobile is going to be, I better make a therapist appointment for May 9th (the afternoon I get back to NY).

I just need to say this: I know who my true friends are, and Mr. Anonymous isn't one!
But the good (i'm stretching) news is that I will be visiting the MOB the beginning of May. My
flight itinerary for all you stalkers out there who would like to reserve a seat next to me:
DL5077 05 MAY DEPARTS JFK AT 940A ARRIVES PNS AT 1120A
DL5579 09 MAY DEPARTS PNS AT 710A ARRIVES JFK AT 1045A

This would be a perfect segway into a discussion about something I got to thinking about last
night: There is a time when you must move away from the bad to receive the better. This mantra can be applied to EVERY aspect of a person's life. I've always been a strong believer in the philosophy that whatever the universe brings you, the universe will bring you through. But I do think that we have to be proactive to some degree. And I have learned that complacency can tear us up inside and change often scares the hell out of us!

I fear that many people from my hometown of Mobile will never be able to really know who they truly are due to the fact they will always have limited perspective. And without sufficient
perspective you can't have insight. I was fortunate enough to have a hunger for something more
than what was given to me. I was proactive and got a taste of what this universe had/has to offer me outside of Mobile.

Someone I met soon after I moved to NYC introduced me to Rousseau's Noble Savage Myth, which goes something like this: Men in a state of nature do not know good and evil, but their independence, along with “the peacefulness of their passions, and their ignorance of vice”, keep them from doing ill.
My take on this is that some people are genuinely happy with their situation due to their own
ignorance. There's no doubt that I am, and have always been, plagued with the knowlege of what else is "out there" and most inhabitants of smaller cities do not have this disease.
Ignorance is bliss, and sometimes knowledge can be lethal. But I will gratefully embrace the misery that comes with knowledge.

On a lighter and completely unrelated note, go Carrie Underwood. And congrats to One Tree Hill lovebirds Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush who tied the knot Saturday at the Casa del Mar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. The bride wore Vera Wang and the groom donned Ralph Lauren.

Yes, I'm insane!