Setting: sitting on an over-turned bucket next to a long stretch of worn-out highway, asphalt cracked, a few weeds poking through, a straight line from one flat brown horizon to the other...waiting
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Why can you not use some of the time, at least, to devote to your writing? Because your brain doesn't want to cooperate (fixable) or because you feel like you need/should be using your time otherwise? Like finding a job or something?
All I have to offer is this--make some joy for yourself. Take it, don't ask for it, don't make yourself "deserve" it--because if there is no joy, nothing else is going to work out either. Taking some joy for yourself will let in the light you need to make changes for the better in all aspects of life-at-the-moment.
Think of it this way--if all you have is a wet match and a candle, getting some light in the room is really hard, and often impossible--but! If you already have one candle lit, you can light dozens and dozens more quite easily. See?
Before I read bogwitch64 I was about to say something similar. Since she has expressed my thoughts with such eloquence, I shall reiterate:
...make some joy for yourself. Take it, don't ask for it, don't make yourself "deserve" it - because if there is no joy, nothing else is going to work out either. Taking some joy for yourself will let in the light you need to make changes for the better in all aspects of life-at-the-moment.
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All I have to offer is this--make some joy for yourself. Take it, don't ask for it, don't make yourself "deserve" it--because if there is no joy, nothing else is going to work out either. Taking some joy for yourself will let in the light you need to make changes for the better in all aspects of life-at-the-moment.
Think of it this way--if all you have is a wet match and a candle, getting some light in the room is really hard, and often impossible--but! If you already have one candle lit, you can light dozens and dozens more quite easily. See?
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...make some joy for yourself. Take it, don't ask for it, don't make yourself "deserve" it - because if there is no joy, nothing else is going to work out either. Taking some joy for yourself will let in the light you need to make changes for the better in all aspects of life-at-the-moment.
In my thoughts.
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