URL and Random Musings

So, nobody has asked, but it's been on my mind to explain the URL that I've chosen for this site. In my early years of writing "poetry" and reading a lot of Stephen King, I came across an author "Richard Bachman" and liked his writing as well. Lo and behold, it was Stephen King using a pen name; I thought to myself--nifty, I like that. I've always liked the name 'Micheal' so I started with that. I kept my middle initial, and 'Peters' just seemed to flow with Micheal J. And that is where Micheal J Peters comes from--it is me, just a pen name--an eccentricity of myself.

Anyway, onto my random musings. I've been reading a book, and have come across a few excerpts I'd post and leave for comment.

"Nothing makes our lives so hectic as changing residences. All the packing and unpacking robs us of any possible time for constructive solitude. Further, this feeds a cultural narcissism. Each move trunicates our relationships and leaves us to face the future alone. It is axiomatic that we turn inward and therefore become ego centered, focusing almost entirely on our own small world. The larger world of social relationships takes second place."

"One of my favorite writers speaks of what he calls 'decidophobia': the fear of making decisions. Decidophobia may not only make us afraid of making decisions, it may compel us into a busy life-style that keeps us running from the necessity of making decisions."

"Little turtle, who has turned you upside down? Did you come into the open once too often? Did life find you out?"

"There's so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly behooves the most of us to talk about the rest of us."

"I have discovered an interesting thing about selfish people. They do not feel loved. In fact, the more selfish they are, the less loved they feel; and the less loved they feel, the more selfish they become."

These are random musing's that caught my eye for various reasons that I'll elaborate on if requested.