Appropriately Titled...

A former boss loved to proclaim that she uncovered a new layer "of the onion that is Adam", and although I despised her for her poor leadership and overall interpersonal skills, her regular proclamations about me stuck. So while thinking about an appropriate title for this blog, I decided to go with "The Onion's Layers". When you think about it, we are all like onions. After peeling away our initial "skin", we are comprised of layer upon layer of delicious goodness (ok, so maybe this isn't a good way to describe our personalities, but whatever). At our core, we have a heart that contains the ability to grow over and over again and build new layers over existing layers.

There are "layers" of me that only a select group of people in my life ever get to see. At work, people generally only get to see the professional layer. This is probably the toughest; the thickest layer in my proverbial onion. I guard the rest of my layers carefully. Possibly because I've been burned in the past by people I don't completely trust to begin with. My professional layer and my personal layers don't like to intermingle because of this. Sometimes I just don't see the point in showing my other layers to people who aren't crit
ically important to me.  But who knows, I might just need to practice peeling away that outer layer to some of those people as I learn to let go of things or people I can't control.

But you know, that's all part of the growing process for "the onion" anyway. I recently committed myself to be more honest with people around me. I am practicing being more honest with myself, and part of that is to allow people to see all my layers; to not guard myself so much, because well, I have no reason to be ashamed of who I am or what makes me, me.

I really hate being all serious and philosophical like this. I feel like this post is too serious. I love to laugh and I love life, so I have to practice keeping things positive in these posts. I also wanted a place (other than the Facebook demon, as my wife refers to it) that I could share things that interest me, and make up the layers of my "onion".  I hope this whole blogging thing sticks, because it might end up being cathartic or enlightening or something deep like that.