Allow myself to Introduce Myself......James Danger

I live in a bubble. Currently I have been out of work for a over year (playing in the band in just that...playing) and by the grace of God alone I am surviving. All my life it has been like this. I don’t know exactly why but as long as I believe that ‘it will all work out’ it does. This is what gamblers call luck, religions call faith, and I call life. I have had the most wonderful time being alive. Don’t get me wrong it’s not all a walk in the park; I’m what is defined medically as bi-polar. Most people believe this condition to be a curse, I on the other hand love the roller coaster. When I’m down I swim for the bottom because I know the lower I go the higher I rebound. For the record I have a high IQ, not just a little but way out of bounds. I do understand that there is a fine line between genius and insanity.

Recently I was talking with my lawyer and I told him of my current delusional state. He reassured me that what some call delusional other record as visionary. That is of course is my bubble. I have many great friends, and I know to have good friends you have to be a good friend. I’m not so lucky with relationships as I will detail throughout this adventure. I do believe that life is just that... an adventure. The only thing certain is change. I have had several critics intimate that the format I have written this is not acceptable, I drift in and out of style and write primarily first person. Because this is my perspective I believe it to be the best way to relate these events and ideas. I may in later revisions decide to change this belief, but I feel that literature has changed forms many times during its evolution and if this is another change it may be for the better. In my opinion it is you the reader who decides, by accepting or rejecting new ideas. In fact I believe at times the “I” in this work will become the ‘you’ who is reading this and hopefully we will merge in cosmic conscience thought. Once again I reiterate I may have had a psychotic break and in my delusional state accept things to be real which are not, by the constraints of this universe,, possible. But I believe that if we get in tune the very substance of this work will become a conscious stream and it will be in fact your ideas presenting themselves for affirmation.

JD Barlow