But what is this “Gunk” I was talking about yesterday?

It’s culture. It’s expectations. It’s the person I don’t like who is guarding the door to the building I need to be in. It is social media. It’s learning a new technique. It’s the organisations, like Facebook or Google or Apple or Take Your Pick, that seem to hold so much of the power in the world we are walking through.

Mostly though, it is in the eye of the beholder. My “Gunk” might be simply be “The Path” to you. And vice versa.

But the “Gunk” produced by culture, and organisations and systems isn’t personal. We just make it so through a particular mindset.

We make a religion of our ideas (which may well be wonderful in themselves) and the ideals they lead to, and it becomes “Idealism”.

And that can prevent us from moving at all and undoubtedly is very personal. It’s my way of avoiding action. A way of hiding from tomorrow. From Walking Through The Gunk.

Too often for comfort, it’s My Way Of Hiding.