On Dru

So, I decided to start a blog, just because I've got a literal ton of creative energy to vent and decided that here and now is a decent place to vent it.

Also because I'm pretty sure that I'm starting to annoy my friends when I send out a mass Email that really doesn't say anything more important than my own musings on the universe as a whole.

So, who is Dru, exactly? Good question, and I really wish I could provide something which would be satisfactory as an answer.

I suppose the best way of putting it is that I've always been unlike just about everybody I know. I've always walked just a little be out of step with the rest of the universe. Not that this is a terribly bad thing, mind you. I just tend to favor doing thigs a little different than most people. In a lot of ways, I'm a very difficult person to put in any specific category.

I'm a scientist (hopefully a PhD. in biophysics before too long), but I also consider myself to have very strong faith. I'm a geek, but also sort of a cool guy to have around (or at least, I like to think so). I study martial arts, but nobody believes me when I tell them that. I climb walls on a regular basis, just because I can (again, nobody seems to believe it when I first mention it). I kill rats on a regular basis because my work requires it. I enjoy broadway musicals, but I possess a Y chromosome.

I believe that there's more to learn about God (or Allah, or Jaweh, or Vishnu or whaever particular higher being you ascribe to) by watching a sunrise than by reading a book (or worse, by listening to someone's interpretation of that book). I have nothing against organized religion as a path to spirituality, as long as those that practice said religion realize that there are other, equally valid, paths. It's those who are so set in their beliefs that they won't even accept the possibility that other faiths may be just as true as theirs that, frankly, scare me. In short, I believe organized religion to be a path, but not necessarily the path. To me, finding one's own spirituality outside any specific religious framework (which I have been trying to do for the last year) can be equally valid. And if I'm wrong, well, I go to hell. I'd rather be damned for who I really am, than blessed for trying to be someone I'm not.

I completed a Bachelor's degree in physics at Bishop's University in 2002 and have since been pursuing a PhD in biophysics. With a little luck, I will defend my thesis in June of 2005. After that, I haven't the faintest clue what's next.

I have been studying Bak Fu Pai (Kung Fu, White Tiger Style) for the last almost-year, and it has helped me rediscover my own spirituality which I'd been sorely neglecting for the last twenty-five years. I'm also, consequently, in the best health (physically, mentally and spiritually) of my life. In my twenty-five years, I don't think I can recall the last time that I felt this alive.

I've been seeing a wonderful young woman for almost a year now, and she's added more to my life than I think even she knows. She's my constant reminder of just how blessed I've been.

Anyhow, if you find my postings too boring, swing my my friends Mike & Rose, since they always have something interesting to say.

Signing out,
dru