Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Adolescence of life

I’ve met a lot of different people along my transition. I’ve met cross dressers who look better than most TS starting out, yet they like being men. I’ve met T’s who don’t take hormones but have orchiectomies and breast implants, T’s who take hormones yet prefer to live with a penis, T’s who battle their own sexual orientation while self administering hormones off and on over years, T’s who get thru transition but seem a little out of it once through to the other side, T’s who have transitioned over a few years and done fairly well with life, young T’s who look incredible with their bodies only partially tainted by the evil testosterone, older T’s who fight the public’s stereotype of being a man in a dress, older T’s that transitioned and had SRS 20 years ago...paving the way for many of us, and everything in between. Hell, I’ve even met a transsexual porn star who looks totally incredible, but she keeps her penis for her job…and because it makes her special.

I’ve lived 32 years as a shell of a man, over a year part time as a person figuring out their essence, and as a woman for 6 months. I’ve lived in a town with only 2000 people all the way up to the metro Bay Area.

The thing is, though, I am just a child in terms of experience. We all are. There are so many things for us to learn in life, that if we give up the pursuit of knowledge...well...we’re just giving up. I’m not an expert. The only things I can share are the things that I have experienced first hand. Although I may see one formula to success, there are, indeed, other formulas that can get you to relatively the same place. Anyway, I guess I am just writing this to say that if you are still searching for your road to success, figure out where you are, where you want to be, and how you can get there….and plan what you will do if you run into lions and tigers and bears.

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