Photo by Lidya Nada on Unsplash At the beginning of this year, I wrote the following words above my yearly goals: Seek joy. Choose joy. Joy will take you further. At the time, I was recovering from the worst year I ever had. After six months of everything going wrong that could go wrong, I finally felt like I wasn’t living in a purgatory of monthly tragedy. I had achieved a novel but tenuous level of stability by the time that I wrote those words. Perversely, just as the dust settled, the anxiety started to creep in. My anxious inner voice whispered at me. “Yes things are ok now. But what about when the other shoe drops? Can you really afford to be blindsided? Better to stay vigilant so you can avoid surprises.
#NaNonFicWriMo: Joy
#NaNonFicWriMo: Joy
#NaNonFicWriMo: Joy
Photo by Lidya Nada on Unsplash At the beginning of this year, I wrote the following words above my yearly goals: Seek joy. Choose joy. Joy will take you further. At the time, I was recovering from the worst year I ever had. After six months of everything going wrong that could go wrong, I finally felt like I wasn’t living in a purgatory of monthly tragedy. I had achieved a novel but tenuous level of stability by the time that I wrote those words. Perversely, just as the dust settled, the anxiety started to creep in. My anxious inner voice whispered at me. “Yes things are ok now. But what about when the other shoe drops? Can you really afford to be blindsided? Better to stay vigilant so you can avoid surprises.