More than a decade ago, when I first started blogging, I used to dissect society and the workplace through a psychological lens, weaving intricate thoughts together. I traveled a lot back then, writing in depth, layering insights much like the ruins of the places I visited. Fast forward to these days, I find myself writing more stream-of-consciousness, caught up in the pace of life. But every now and then, a place or moment pulls me back into that deeper reflection.
Today, I visited the ancient city of Troy, in Turkey—a name that often evokes visions of Helen, Paris, a wooden horse, and yes, Brad Pitt from “Troy”. But Troy is much more than the myths or Hollywood versions. It’s a place where layers of history, thousands of years old, remain unearthed, waiting to tell more stories. Each layer speaks to a different time: Troy as a fishing village, a walled city, a battlefield where Greeks and Romans clashed. Over centuries, Troy became distanced from the sea, physically and symbolically, as its many layers piled up—each representing a different truth, a different era.
Walking through its ruins, I couldn’t help but think of how much of history still needs to be uncovered. There are stories hidden beneath the rubble that no one has yet told, much like the truths we seek in our own lives. Our quest for understanding is ongoing, much like the excavations at Troy. The city isn’t just an archaeological site; it’s a metaphor for our endless digging, not just into history, but into ourselves, trying to find meaning in what we see and experience.
As I walked through the modern streets of a nearby town, I stumbled across a billboard that read, “Bigfoot doesn’t believe in you either.” At first, it made me laugh. But then, it struck me: this is how we humans operate, constantly searching for things that may or may not be real—be it mythical creatures, deeper meanings, or hidden truths. Just like Troy, the legend of Bigfoot is a story layered with belief, skepticism, and a desire to uncover something grand and mysterious.
Later in the day, I came across a tragic story from the U.S. about two men who died while searching for Sasquatch. It was around the holidays, a time when many of us yearn to believe in something—anything—that gives our lives meaning. Their quest, while misguided to some, symbolized a deep human need to find what’s hidden, to unearth the extraordinary in the ordinary. And it felt fitting, standing there in Troy, thinking about how much of history is still shrouded in mystery, waiting to be brought to light.
Whether it’s the ruins of an ancient city or a mythical creature, our need to search, to dig, to believe is universal. Troy teaches us that there is always more beneath the surface, more layers to uncover. And perhaps, in our lives, there’s more to unearth, too.
Categories: current events, History, identity, Psychology, society, writing
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Oh the Power of Story as i’ve Related
Before Dear Miriam Taylor Swift Works So Very
Hard For Her Fame
And ‘Big Foot’ Doesn’t
Even Have to Exist to Be
A Legend and Known All Around
The World By Different Names too
Ah Yes the Power
of Story Really
Brings the
Words to Life
For Us to Even
See in Other Arts
Created of What We
Choose or Do Not Choose
to Believe in Next
i Surely Will Relate as Just
Last Week a Dude Questioned
me on What i Was Listening to Public Dancing
And i Related it Was A Meditating Yoga Dance in Flow
By A Bunch of Very Healthy People Doing it Together on a Beach
With a Drum
And a Mantra
Chant to Accompany
The Ascending Transcendent
Mindfully Aware from Toe to Head Experience
Hehe as a Veteran of the Military He Related That
Was Kind of ‘Girly Stuff to Do’ Hehe Just by the Expression
On His Face
So i Went on to
Relate Guess How
Much Weight i Leg Press
Before i Started The Dance at 53
And Now Still at my ‘Advancing Age’ of 64
He Went Low and Went into Total Disbelief when
i Said MUCH MORE when he Auctioned my Potential at 700 pounds
And Even Though i Told Him i Have Proof of me Doing 1340 pounds on
Youtube 12 Reps Very Slowly in 100 Seconds of Duration Which Including
the Full Weight of the Sled Makes 1415 Pounds He Just Refused to Believe
That Actually Just as
A Routine Warming Up
i’m Able to Leg Press
1540 Pounds 12 Reps at
the Military Gym that He Also
Has access to view it in Real Life If He Likes
3 Times a Week Every Monday Wednesday
Friday as Over there People are Used to me
Doing It Kinda Like the 21,077 Miles of Public
Dance all around the Metro area in the last 136 Months
As i’m Sure it Just Sounds Like Routine that i Write 13.6 MiLLioN
Words in 136 Months of EPiC Free Verse Poetry As Well as Yes i Keep
Track and
Report the
Advancing
Dance and Song Metrics
Something We Learned to
Do Working for the Military
As They Were Always looking
For Ways to Create a More Efficient Organization…
Meh it Didn’t Really Work for them for me It’s Just for the
Record Book Hehe
And the Dance
And The Focus
Attention Span
Will and Strength
On A Foundation of
LoVE iN Peace of Balancing
FRiEnDS With Gravity to Get the Play Done
True Folks Have Suggested i’m Famous A
Celebrity and Living Legend Just for a Free
Dance in an
Age where
Folks Walk
in Straight
Lines on Sidewalks
Yet for me meh It’s a
Play of Life that Brings
Heaven Within For Real
In this Place Words Like Legend
Famous Celebrity Just Can’t Compete
With the
Joy of
The Journey Now
Key: Don’t Stop Believing
HAha and my Sister bought me
A Christmas Shirt With Big Foot Entering A UFO
Taking Off From the Gravity of Earth that Just Says
“Believe”
As the Military
Veteran Walked
Off in Disbelief i Just
Remarked There are Fewer to
No Limits if You Believe and Just
Do it
And
Don’t Give Up…
Of Course in Stories
There are No Limits at
All for me Real Life Will Suffice
iN
Believe
New
For Now
With SMiLes…
Earlier in the Week a Young
Woman Asked me What i Was Listening
too Took a Photo of the Song on my iPhone
Looked it Up Listened to it and Exclaimed
The Song Was Great!
She Was Sure She
Could Dance With me to the Song…
Every View is Different
Every Experience
Is Subject to Change
i Make the Best of Now Why Not!
For i
Believe
in the Power of Now!
And Paint
It With
Ever
Color New..:)
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Was it Woody Allen who said “History, it’s just one damn thing after another” 😀
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They say Troy was built and destroyed nine times, historically!
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Yes, so true. It was amazing to see the different “layers”
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