My Fundamentals — Preface

As I get back to full health, I’m auditing everything from physical, psychological, social and metaphysical aspects of my life.

I don’t normally write multiple Fiftytwo250 posts per week but New Years 2021 deserves a special focus.

I’m currently fighting the worst injury I had to deal with. I have a compressed nerve in my lower back that is affecting my lower extremities.

Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises getting out of a back sling

The injury along with lockdown has given me pause, it’s given me reason to reflect on everything about my life.

Fear has caught up and I’m scared.

My injury is the result of ignorance. I ignored the signs, symptoms and passive calls of my body… more importantly I ignored those who tried to help me. I abandoned myself and others in the pursuit of glory.

As I get back to full health, I’m auditing everything from physical, psychological, social and metaphysical aspects of my life.

Upon reflection I didn’t follow any basic fundamentals of living. I’m not suggesting that applying “fundamentals” will solve all your problems, but it makes it easier to troubleshoot obstacles.

Ironically, I wrote a post in the past about fundamentals which inspired this next series titled “My Fundamentals”.

For the indefinite future, I’ll be writing posts about my renewed fundamentals to live by.

I’m not making recommendations or providing medical advice, rather I hope the posts serve as thinking prompts. My intention here is to help people review their own life. I trust readers have the agency and wherewithal to take their own action.

Bruce Wayne climbing out of the prison in The Dark Knight Rises — “Fear will find you again”

If there is a time to reflect about fundamentals to life, no time is better than the beginning of 2021.

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Fiftytwo250 (Fifty-Two Two Fifty), a collection of random, recurring, ruminations written with patience for depth and brevity. Each post is written over the course of a week in 250 words or less as a personal exercise of freedom and focus in a time of placid tumult and despair.