Hello fellow bloggers,
I return to this familiar site with a new perspective on quite a lot of things. Over the past several months, a lot of things have happened to me, good and bad. There will be descriptions of some of the more significant events in later blog posts, but for now, I think I'll focus on the idea of doing what you most love, and making sure that nothing stops you from doing it.
Now let's establish some boundaries here. I understand that we all have our obligations, and have to give time to these menial (or not so menial) things that we have to do. What I'm referring to here is that we keep these things in mind, but also pay particular attention when we're coming up with a lot of excuses for not wanting to do the thing (or things) you most want to do. In my case, I sometimes tell myself that I'm too tired to write, or that I don't really want to open up my computer and start typing. In fact, that's exactly what was happening to me exactly before I powered up my computer a little while ago! I had trouble sleeping last night, and felt myself getting a little drowsy as I lay in my bed, checking emails on my phone. But I got an idea or two, and remembered some passages I'd written in a notebook while on vacation that I needed to transcribe to my laptop. So I started doing that, thinking that I could put on some music in the meantime if I needed to. I ended up getting work done on a long story, then writing a cover letter, and now, blogging for the first time in months.
It's great to be back, I must say.
There will be distractions. It will be hard. Sometimes you will want to give up. Just press on. That's what I'm hoping to do. You could even call it my New Year's resolution, though it's a bit late to mention that and the idea of New Year's resolutions has started to seem cheesy to me. I once came up with around 8-10 resolutions when I was an elementary schooler. While I did achieve some of them, I just don't want to think in those terms. I am achieving everything I set out to do, and I'm simply going to try to maintain that trend. But I will be gentle with myself. I will love myself.
Be gentle with yourself. Love yourself. Now go and achieve your dreams. I know you can do it.
<3
Courtney
