Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Cusp: A Transitional Point or Time

Cusps are those points in time where you made (or didn't make) that right turn at albequerque that got you where you are today. Those pivotal events and decisions turned you into who you are.

They can be obviously meaningful like death, birth, or marriage, or they can be seemingly (at the time) insignificant like a chance meeting or missed bus. Everyday we make little decisions that in the long run matter little, if at all. White Mocha or Latte? Blue shirt or green? Get up or hit the snooze bar one more time? A few times in our lives, however, we make a decision or meet someone or something happens to us that will impact our lives in a huge way. These are the true cusps of our lives.

Your challenge for February, as we work our way into a new year of branches, twists, and turns in our life paths, is to describe at least five major cusps that have altered your life substantially. Feel free to link to prior posts, if you like, to describe them or write fresh about the cusps and the impact they had on you.

Journal Description

My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

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