Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

Shannon, I'm suddenly curious to know what Shannon the person is all about, how you became who you are today. You've revealed bits and pieces of your history on these forums over the years, some huge like your battle with cancer, some smaller in comparison like attracting certain women into your life or references to your photography career, but it might help some of us better understand your motivations for doing what you do how you do it if there was a convenient timeline/chronologically ordered account of the process of becoming "Shannon Matteson, 2016 and beyond" that you'd be willing to share with us.

I'm not looking to write a biography of you or anything like that, I'll leave that to better writers than myself ; I'm simply looking to better understand as a student of life how you've gotten to this point in your life, this point in time, and what kind of efforts it took you to make it all happen.

Timeline? Seriously?

I have been through a lot of shit. When I faced challenge, I made the right choices. I chose success over failure, and doing the right thing over personal gain. I chose perseverance over giving up. I chose to believe in myself instead of believe the crap people told me to believe about myself. And when I genuinely tried to give up, I always had someone there to stop me.

Any more than that and I'll never get the description page of AOSI done with all these questions.