Exploration of life, freedom, circumstances, self, God and the world is a task of every human. A Philosopher is a person that keeps lingering on those subjects a bit longer than usual.
In a way, I was a philosopher before I knew what that entailed. When I discovered Philosophy through Sophie’s World in grade school, I was quite enchanted with it. To be able to study Philosophy at University later in life, was a great privilege but to think of myself as a philosopher was far fetched and conceited. I wasn’t as bold, was I?
Of course I was.
What is the main trait of an author and a philosopher, a big inflated ego that thinks highly of itself. Without it, no one would dare to impose their world-view on the unsuspecting population.
Keeping myself small, I kept thinking of the worldly matters not taking on a bigger burden to bear. To think of the present is presumptuous enough.
To think of more is grandiose.
I need to get a bit older and cockier to get there.
For now, I dabble thinking of this and that but nothing too consequential.
Instead, all of my musings went to my fiction to make it a bit more believable.
For what the future holds, we shall see, or at least those who live to see it will know.