Before any kind of assignment...

First, please allow me to take this opportunity to explain why I have chosen the name of the blog to be "The 3rd Party". In almost every event in my life where two people have clashed on an issue, I have had to intervene as the third party to explain how both sides were just being biased towards their view and that both parties were at fault. This, in and of itself, is a good enough reason, but I do have something else that I find rather interesting that would effectively illustrate my point. You see, I often fantasize about the afterlife. Not the angelic, puffy marshmallow-of-an-eternity known as Heaven, and not very often about the ash pit below us, either. I love to ponder on the nature of the middle ground between the two extremes, the grey in relation to the blacks and whites of life and death, and Limbo, Purgatory, and other such themes fit this bill nicely. This extends beyond the abstract concepts of life after death, though. This is about the right to be indecisive. People care to much about being one thing or the other, and frequently will assume that if somebody isn't one thing, they are the opposite. This is an unfortunate programming of our minds that many of us didn't even realize was present until the damage was already done. The long forgotten 3rd Party, like me, remains strong in the face of neglect and dissatisfaction, and will always be there as a last resort when both of the previously exclusively understood options fail and people are left with nothing more than a memory of a concept. This middle ground would encompass many things, from the 50/50 mix to the lack of anything at all, which are possibilities that not many people wish to consider; however, to me, that makes it all the more appealing of a possibility. So I say now, "You have now joined The 3rd Party." Enjoy the middle.

~Kyric NeonSilver (Richard Hassinger)
(Picture by The FisFis on DeviantArt.com)
http://the-fisfis.deviantart.com/art/Middle-Ground-110556824