Zebras have nothing to do with the blog I’m writing. Tbh, I just wanted to have a big Z on this page and I enjoy messing with people’s expectations.
Actually, this blog is my attempt at looking into the mess that clutters my mind, filtering out the things I like to talk about and sharing it with you folk. Amazingly, while simultaneously breathing for 22 (23 now) years, I’ve developed passions that include: music, food, wine, travel and health/fitness. If you share these interests, take a look around, talk with other readers or reach out to me, I won’t bite (except on these dates). If you don’t, then hey, to each their own and all that, but I think you might be an alien. It’s okay though, sometimes my friends give me looks that mean the same thing.
Anyways, you’re probably thinking “ok. so Eason writes things now. makes sense. but Phases? that werewolf allusion earlier is really starting to freak me out…” and I’d say, yeah, you should definitely be freaked out, just not about the werewolf part.
Essentially, when I look back at my life experiences I have come to realize that each memory is associated with a certain overall mood, mindset and most importantly playlist. Yes, playlist. See, my brain is an association machine. This tendency helps to explain why numbers are easy for me to work with, why I have to fight floods of puns from slipping out of my brain all the time and, in this case, why most songs I listen to have an explicit memory, place or person associated with them. These memories clump together based on the stage in life I was in during that time and form this playlist of songs that, for the most part, fall into the same genre. For example, I got IN to Motown my last semester of college and now every time I listen to anything by the Jackson 5, I am reminded of the spring track meets I traveled to and competed in that semester with my track fam, I think about the last nights spent with my best friends in our house (R.I.P. 108) and I think about graduation. Today, my brain views that entire last semester as a movie reel of memories with the Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder and The Temptations playing the background music. Each of these Phases, though not mutually exclusive, piece together to form my past, influence my present and guide my future.
As you’ll see in my writing, people are the most important piece in helping to create these phases that I cherish so much. Whether someone is family, a close friend or a total stranger, it blows my mind how much you can learn about yourself by simply connecting with other humans (or aliens, no judgment). My goal, aside from sharing things I enjoy, is to help spur on or enhance a Phase of your own, if you manage to understand anything I say. So with that being said, here’s to being open, vulnerable and pretty freakin’ weird.
Much love,
Eason
