Influence

There's a nice little essay in Rushdie's Step Across This Line in which he expounds on the concept of influence on a writer's writings. To borrow this idea very loosely, I have come to realize that where I am, in terms of the space I occupy and the place and position I'm in where life (however you think about it in it's entirety) is very much dependent on who I am around for the longest periods of time. This is a new discovery that sheds tremendous light on the way I feel, think and want at any point or moment. Such is what is guarded against, for it is, as has been shared with me at a Benny Ho talk on Wednesday, "Soulishness", that which is not of the Spirit.

Amazing what an old friend's words and a day watching Ultimate can do for the introspection, retrospection and philosophy.