I got feelings?

I am being encouraged by my writing mentor to explore my feelings and publicly post them. A couple of items to note here

• Encourage is another word for nagging, bugging, and pestering when you are reluctant to do something
  
• Writing about my feelings is something I reserve for notes written on paper, which gets folded up, burnt, and the ashes placed in a dumpster behind an un-disclosed fast food restaurant on Bee Caves Road.
  
• My blog, aka public writing place, is for light hearted observations, training things, and race reports, not for feelings.
  

Well, my writing mentor (who I like to refer to as the Word Nazi) is telling me that I cannot progress in the craft of writing unless I can put it all out there for others to enjoy. He wants me to take some risks. He thinks I am holding back because I am worried about who might read what I write and how they will interpret my words. He thinks that if I start putting down in my blog my deepest feelings, then by risking ridicule I become a better writer.

I put some thought into this and I figured he might be right. After all hundreds of thousands of people are writing about how they feel and they are posting it out for everyone to read. They can do it, so why shouldn't I? These are times when it is okay for men to explore their feelings and impressions. It is easier nowadays for a man to write about sensitive natured subjects, not just about the old-school acceptable things like sports, wood working and critical evaluations of what wood is best for smoking meats (which is oak, BTW). Also, I have age on my side. I have seen a lot of change in the world; I can rant and rave about the pitiful state of things, the poor quality of music and how the kids these days don't know anything about fun. Or, I could write about the "good old days", how all we got to play with were rocks and occasionally a bottle cap.

Maybe the Word Nazi is correct and I need to change my attitude about exploring my feelings and putting it down for others to read. Starting right now, I am going to do that. I am going to dig deep, think, analyze, and explore my soul. I am going to figure out how I sense things, what makes me feel that way and then I will provide details on who I am. My fears, what worries me, what I love, what I sense and what I experience. This may not be pretty and this may shock people, but that is the risk I must take. So, here goes,

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I'm Hungry.