Table of Life Contents…

One question that has essentially made its sporadic rounds within my lifetime is the question: “what would be the titles to the significant chapters in your life?”

 Every time I am asked this question, whether it be through my therapeutic associations or or other intimate conversations that spawn from my ambitions around knowing other people’s personal narratives, I can’t help but find myself in heavy thought for the next couple days thinking about the potential labels I could put on my chronological histories.  How does one narrow down all the different bouquets of personal experiences into one or two phrase labels that depict the chaos of personal development?  Do I risk reposing myself to the insanity that I relied on to help me survive both the terrains of childhood and young adulthood that already has left me scarred and formatted into the character that sits at this desk today? To make matters more complicated the above questions is often superseded by the broader question, “if you were to write a book about yourself what would you title the book?”

I can’t tell you how many titles have flashed throughout my mind within the given years of trying to answer this question.  I can tell you that I am slowly starting to get comfortable with the fear that no matter what title I choose to represent my life’s purpose it will only eventually rot away within the blossoming of new life that tends to follow the different seasons that guide my story to it’s inevitable conclusion (speaking in the manner of flesh and not spirit.)  

As a result, I have decided for the next couple of weeks my blogposts will solely focus on attempting to describe the figurative outline of my life’s story (so far) that situates itself within my mind.  Starting with today’s writing, I will attempt to detail a rough draft of the profound content and defining points throughout my history that I will further explore (in later posts) when it comes to the anecdotes and rationale for embellishing on such narratives. 

Proposed title of my “book” (so far):

“The Adaptions of Jonathon Nixon: The Rotating ‘I’ That Comes from Being a Family Therapist”

Part 1: The Seasons of Childhood  

Part 2: The Seasons of Young Adulthood

Part 3: The Seasons of Romance

Part 4: The Seasons of Parenthood

Part 5: The Seasons of Mid Life (Differentiation)

Part 6: Ambitions Buried within the Horizons of Tomorrow – Stories that Have Yet to Manifest