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    Happy Fourth of July, everyone! It's been far too long since I've last posted something, but there are good reasons for it. I'll be devoting this post today's post for that reason.
    The reason for my hiatus is not that simple. It's been, mostly, because of my personal development, and personal development tends to be a bit of complex thing. As a warning, this may become a bit personal, but that's part of the purpose of this blog; this blog was intended as a form of mental expression, and as a means to help others as I work through problems on which I've found myself musing over, and that, at times, will involve very personal issues. I will not attempt to be offensive, nor will I intend to write anything to make anyone uncomfortable-when I say personal (please understand), I mean, in regards to me as a person, or a personality. And that of my personality will not be an attempt to be a superficial expression of narcissism cleverly disguised as "blog post". I'm usually quite lazy, and I could easily find easier means to be a narcissist in disguise through other forms of social media, and I would get a better following, because not many, it seems, like to read these blogs, at least in a large portion of my social circles.
    Now, as some may know, I enjoy working through studying philosophy, and theology. Those who know me very well will know that my interests began about four years ago. I will go over the narrative as briefly as possible, and, of course, this will not be exact-I doubt many will remember everything to the details, and I'm no exception. As I just mentioned, this interest began four years.(I had given up on schooling a while back, simply because I found it boring-my first two semesters were boring pre-reqs with professors who were not scholars, nor were they passionate, so everything in this time was unscholastic.) And, I had begun to devote my reading to classics, a bit of Dickens here, Tolstoy there (which I've never finished), Sophocles for lunch, and a pinch of Plato for good measure. And it was when I had read Plato's Republic I found myself absolutely enthralled. I had never found a figure as intriguing as Socrates. He, in his brilliant form of questioning, seemed to me, as a prophet. Though the Socrates was a means for Plato's ideas, and his arguments, at times were flawed, he had represented a revolutionary form of thinking. This was the beginning of my intellectual development. It was from this work that I found that if one is to question things, but one had to do so within reason. I had begun to become questioning, but in forms of metaphysics, I didn't escape with just inquiry, I had been stained with platonic concepts and had been influenced by Plato's forms. It's been this past year in which I have been able to escape the traps of his forms, but the story will have to follow in the next post, hopefully, tomorrow, or tonight. This didn't end up being much of a narrative, but that will, again, have to follow. Also, I don't feel like editing this (remember, I'm pretty lazy). As a note, I have only edited one post, but did that after going over it very quickly, so my grammar will always be sloppy-these are all rough works!
-Steven Carrisalez