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Between life in general and the continuing influx of story ideas, I don’t know how I’m ever going to get this book done. I’m excited about my latest idea, which deals with dreams and how real they can seem sometimes. Maybe I’ll turn that into a short story so it won’t interfere with the long story I’ve already started on.
One of the things I touch on in the first few chapters of my novel is how people get so wrapped up in things that are supposed to improve their life, and avoid life entirely in the process. For those of us who aren’t working our dream job (read: me), life can seem brutal at times. The secret is to find the things that keep us from living the life we were made to live and figure out how to take those things out of the equation.
By the time we discover there’s a problem, some of us will realize that we have a long and difficult battle ahead. Some will give up, but the strong ones will press on. Although my obstacles are relatively few, sometimes the battle seems almost insurmountable. This is due mostly to impatience. I want it to be over and done with now. A time machine would be nice, so I could skip to the good part. Or if there was a way to live the CliffsNotes version of my life for the next year or so, that would make things easier.
Looking back on the hard parts I’ve been through, though, I see their benefit. They are my point of reference when things get difficult. When life becomes stressful or laborious, I can usually remember a time when it was worse and thank God that it isn’t that bad. In the worst of times, the good times remind me that things can and will improve.
This is how life works. Without the good times, bad times would be unbearable. Without the bad times, good times would just be times.
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The move has been in the works for a little over a year, but a lot of people still didn’t know. Oh well.
Comment by Jeremy Dale Heisey 05.15.08 @ 1:42 pm