Hello!
My name is John.
I’m in my 50s and grew up an hour and a half outside of New York City.
I’ve been married almost as long as I haven’t. My wife and I have two children.
I care for four cats, two dogs, and a 10-plus-year-old goldfish. In addition, I like to feed the birds during the winter.
Writing doesn’t come naturally to me. However, once I review it a few dozen times, my prose becomes passable.
Grammarly helps immensely with my writing. I feel like an English teacher is looking over my shoulder—a very strict English teacher at that!
Trust your intuition
I took the Myers-Briggs test and got INFJ. I can’t say if this is true or not. I’m not going to debate it either.
Since I was a child I’ve been told to ignore my intuition; for this reason I’m only now starting to trust it now.
I wish I had started listening sooner.
Many posts on this blog were started when I ruminated on something for days, weeks, months, years or a liftetime.
When intuition summoned the answer I wrote is down to share ‘someday’.
This blog is someday.
Why I created understandingpeople.blog
All my life, I’ve wanted to understand people, particularly those who raised me.
There are many moments in life, especially in my childhood, that I still can’t explain.
I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to.
In recent years, I’ve been stunned by how transparent some people can be.
At the same time, I can’t figure out how I let those very people take advantage of me.
UnderstandingPeople.blog attempts to share what I’ve learned and more.