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He didn't realize it but it is very clear to me now that he lives a Taoist lifestyle very very much so and I think I can attribute this to an early exposure to Asian philosophies when he was very young. This lead to him raising me in a more Taoist way.
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Of course, it is essential to this timeline for me to be born in order to be raised by my father in a Taoist way and to discover all these things about it.
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Of course I didn't know anything about it that I know now but I just really liked Winnie The Pooh. I had a Pooh Bear hat and a stuffed Winnie The Pooh.
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This book was one of the first philosophy books I read and it sparked my interest in philosophy. It was my favorite until I learned about Taoism but I think it plays into Taoism perfectly and so I still follow and believe in both.
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In English Comp 1 they discussed Taoism for a portion of the class. I found it interesting and there was a section about it in my textbook which I would re-read later.
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On this book shopping trip I saw the Tao of Pooh which I had always wanted to read, because I liked philosophy but mainly because I loved Winnie The Pooh. So I bought it.
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I loved this book and immediately wanted to live the way it told me to. I took action in changing my lifestyle right away.
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I spread the word that this was the philosophy for me and in that way, sort of converted.
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I asked for the Tao De Jing and all of the other literature on the subject I could find for Channukah that year. I got great copies.
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This is the class all my blog readers hear me talk about now, it has sparked a lot of further research.
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The blog I made was about Taoism and for the blog I have had to do a lot of further research on the subject and learned a lot more.
