What Changed?
The theme for July 2018 is reread and direction. I want to use this blog to interrogate the things I’ve read before and seen how I look at them differently, then act on the new information.
Last night, I thought that, as cool as this is for stuff other people have written, why not take a critical eye to my writing. How would I critique the things I’ve said here for the last few years?
Good news! As a person that has written every day for the last three years, and intermittently for three years before that, there is plenty to choose from.
Today, I am choosing a post I wrote on July 9th, 2015.
An Excerpt:
The miss, especially for me, comes to represent a stopping point because after dropping those tasks once,I can’t find myself in the mood to start over again. It is as if I dropped a deck of playing cards and to play 52 pickup. I never play 52 pickup, I simply wander to another game. More things start to fall apart, and it becomes easier and easier to let things go. Soon you are in July and you don’t even remember what the resolutions were. It just becomes easier to look forward to December 31st.
It seems like it would be easier just to think smaller.
The impetus around this post seems to be about focus.
After reading, I would change the following:
- I seem to be out of love with narratives here. That isn’t where I am now. I am back in love with a story.
- Your action follows the emotion.
I agree with thinking smaller, though. Can’t do that enough.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 