Back at it

The past four years have been a mind clearing, soul awakening time for me. Covid put a welcome end to a direction I'm glad I did not go down. Over these past couple years, I’ve been the happiest and most self-aware that I have ever been. I’ve been fortunate to be surrounded by my supportive family. The one thing that has been a constant through this most recent journey is my insistence on making every decision based on my happiness, and not someone else’s. I still have a lot of work to do, and I still don’t really know where I’m going. But I do know where I do not want to go.  

I have met a lot of people through my life who have dealt with or are currently dealing with the common and normal feeling of being lost and anxious. That can seem a lonely, empty, and unexplainable feeling. It does not have to be. Whether it is a fear of not living up to some self-created standard or feeling like you aren’t where you think you should be, rest assured that those self-doubts are not unusual. They are the opposite. They are normal. They can be changed.  

I’ve always enjoyed writing. It helps me organize my thoughts and express myself in a way that I otherwise struggle with. Someone told me a long time ago to write what I knew about. Unfortunately, there aren’t many subjects I can write a lot about. But, as I’ve gotten older, my life experiences have begun to amount to something that someone may find helpful.  

It has been years since I’ve opened a Word document, but now that I have a story to tell, I am going to start my story again.