This has been long time coming.
You may have noticed that I am posting less and less frequently on here. I started this blog over a year ago, inspired and excited by my desire to be a nomad and living a nomadic lifestyle.
That desire is still alive and well. However, life happened in the meantime and I realized that this is not the most important aspect of my life at this moment, and since I am not actively nomading, I find it hard to motivate myself to write here.
Then a funny thing happened when I woke up this morning. I received my weekly dose of @SandyFromNJ in form of her weekly Newsletter, talking about “What does money mean to you?” Tucked in that newsletter was a link to a blog post she had written earlier in the week, Chasing a Niche, or Not.
I had fallen prey to the conventional wisdom, forgetting the immortal words of one of mentors, Ron LaGrande, who said “Conventional wisdom is almost always wrong.” I was trying to do things that was conventional in the blogging world, and not succeeding at any of them, because I can’t put my heart into any of them. They were just not me.
All the while ignoring my own advise, and the reason for which I had started this blog in the first place, to “Be Yourself.”
So, this will be the last post for a long while, or maybe not. As I realize that if I am going to dedicate myself to being who I am, I will be on the road soon enough and will have reasons to write here. But in the meantime, I am going to do some self exploration with awareness, rather than following this method or that. I used to write Morning Pages, and they were helpful, so I might start them again.
I am also going to go back and read the ones that I had written during the last year and see what insights I can gain from them and share those at yet another blog I am going to start. I have had the domain name for my name registered for more than five years, but haven’t done anything with it, so why not put it to work.
I also have another domain name, www.MisterWeirdo.com that I have had for more than ten years, and I used to have a website there that is no longer available, and I can use that to express my weirdness. So, I will keep you posted on which route I decide to go. In the meantime, I would very much appreciate it if you have any thoughts or opinions about which one I should use. I know for a fact that the advice coming from my readers is not going to be along the lines of conventional wisdom. 
Rasheed – I read with interest your recent post. I think that sometimes we can think things through too deeply and not take them at face value. I disagree with the statement that ‘conventional wisdom is almost always wrong’. There are things that change like the ‘times’, but not morality, kindness, love and ethics. A nomadic lifestyle is wonderful when you have or can create the freedom to do so. Follow your passions as those are the avenues you will excel in.
Linda,
What a pleasant surprise to hear from you. I am so glad you took time to connect here.
The statement say “almost always” which means there is room for exception. AS for love and kindness, they are human emotions and feelings, not wisdom, and for morality and ethics, well, they have been the causes of more bloodshed in human history than any other. They are the weapons used by religious zealots. So I would have to disagree with you that they are necessarily wise when coming from conventional wisdom.
A personal ethics based on love and kindness, the kind that over rules religious dogma and considers human spirit, is almost always against the conventional norm.
So I stand by the statement that conventional wisdom is almost always wrong. I would go as far as saying it is an oxymoron.
You know I have a great deal of respect for you as a friend and a human being, but your statement, ”A nomadic lifestyle is wonderful when you have or can create the freedom to do so” is a prime example of conventional wisdom. Nomadic lifestyle ISone of my passions, so do I follow it or wait for the right time?
Rasheed