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January 14: Journaling as Therapy



Journaling - My life... hm. Some days are hard. Some days are great. It just depends. I do the stuff that needs to get done that qualifies as “adulting” or whatever you want to call it. I do the stuff that makes me happy as much as I can get away with. I do stuff that I don't want to do but need to do for my health or to survive or just to fill up an hour or two. Overall, things are good. Overall, I'm happy. Overall, I'm content. I wish I could sing more without being shushed by my kid, but there are bigger complaints out there. I wish my feet were warm but that's my own fault for not getting my slippers. They are too far away in the bedroom and I just want to complain about it. I wish that the chore fairy would come and clean the house because I don't want to do it. I wish someone would bring me a cocktail, but I'm not suppose to have them so I guess that's a good thing because of my AFIB medication. I wish we didn't say good bye to people. Anyway, I changed my mind and I'm going to get the slippers.
 
Some interesting thoughts as a result of this challenge. Then I took a light hearted spin to it.
 
I was so not sure what to do for this challenge... until today when we had an extra long period without electricity... I started writing and it just flowed... guess I needed to get it off my chest!
 
LynnG said:
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THAT’S ME with Mary the car in the Black Forest in Germany. While I will never regret those amazing months spent driving around Europe and sleeping in Mary, I do sometimes wonder if I have spent the rest of my life trying to recapture that feeling. The freedom, the excitement, the sense of the world opening up to me. Completely removed from ordinary life, as was possible in those pre-internet days when a phone call back to NZ would be prohibitively expensive (I only made one, from Greece, when K was born) and the only contact I had was an occasionally postcard sent to my parents. Nowadays there is nothing that surprises me and little that is novel to me and you can never truly disconnect. While I love spending time in places like Singapore, London, Australia that feel like second homes, maybe I need to find places and things to explore that are very different.
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I love that you participated, and I wholeheartedly agree with the need to find somewhere to explore. New things keep our brains and souls happy :) Lovely page!
 
KarenK said:
Thanks so much for this great challenge Robyn, I am finding myself writing so much about myself when this MOC started and instead of fracking out, I am staring to enjoy it pretty much.
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I'm so glad you are starting to enjoy the process! It's funny how we think something is outside our comfort zone and then when we do it a couple of times, all of a sudden it's in our wheelhouse! Keep learning about YOU!!
 
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