Francis Erich McElroy
Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.
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Guilty of Suggestion
I sometimes feel backlash from people out in public because I have difficulty joining a society that is changing so fast it is nearly impossible to conclude it is good change we are experiencing. Sure the technology is great, having a robot in your pocket, but the information is so vast I normally don’t commit…
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The Point of Serenity 1
I came back to reality by journaling what was happening around me and so I will trust that this is where I began to make sense out of where I was emotionally, where I was headed. Having been partially successful with the recovery process before, I had decided to finally stop the madness when I…
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Misery Loves Company
In this early recovery I am realizing that if I don’t side with the ideology of sobriety I won’t have any friends to share with the fact that I am sober. If I can’t share it, I won’t be sober much longer because of my own persuasion to seek what I know. My reason for…
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The Duel
I have an affinity for making something out of nothing. I can take a blank piece of paper and with words make a mountain seem not so majestic. I do this by dimming down the description of the land mass, portraying its majesty as an obstacle in my way rather than a canvas for something…
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The Philosophy of Why
“Memory is sometimes understanding the when, where, who, and what but never the why.” -FEM To understand these questions you need to pick an object, place, or person in time and give them a characteristic and name. Put another way, if you were given any topic in history to discuss, you would have to…
