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Our Best Laid Plans
Sometimes, we make plans. Sometimes they’re small ones that it doesn’t matter if they’re broken, but sometimes, they’re big things. Hopes and goals, which are desperately important.
WE CAN’T ALWAYS CONTROL THINGS
The thing is, we can’t always control what is going to happen when we make plans and then life gets in the way. Life has a funny way of throwing things at you, just when you’ve taken on a big project or goal, and tries to knock you completely off course.
This is what’s happened to me last month. I decided that I was going to write 50000 words during July. I had other plans, too, but life, being the charming, delectable soul that it is, decided to pick this month to throw a whole load of stuff on top of me, and then rip off the training wheels.
MY EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER
So, for the last few weeks, I seem to have been on an emotional rollercoaster; trying to paddle as hard as I can, just to stay afloat, and keep my head above water, when every part of my being is willing me to just give up and slip beneath the sea of tears.
The truth, though (or so I’ve been told), is that this is completely and utterly normal. It sucks! It really sucks! But…
