Week #6 - November 25, 2005
I'm moving, starting tonight, so that theme is going to carry into this week's Fiction Friday post. What emotions specifically are evoked when you think about MOVING? Do you get a wrenching feeling in your gut? Are you filled with excitement about the possibilities, or dread at the thought of all that effort.
Write 500 words on the feeling that is evoked by the word MOVING.
Go!
Write 500 words on the feeling that is evoked by the word MOVING.
Go!
posted by Paul Keetch at
8:59 AM
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Why me?
That is that thought that originally came to me when I realised I was going to have to move … again. I just moved across the country and thought I’d found what I was looking for, but apparently not. Of course, this is a question in short form; the real question is:
Why [did I draw this to] me [now]?
It’s a question I ask myself as often as I remember to. It’s an important question, I think.
What is the lesson for me in what is happening? How can I grow as a person and how am I able to help the world grow as a result? I’m not entirely sure if I believe ‘everything happens for a reason,’ (mostly because ‘the reason’ often assumes someone to ‘have it’ and I don’t believe in a God of Personality) but I do know that everything I’ve done up to this moment has led me exactly here. I often find myself staring off in wonderment at the thought of all of the events, including the times when I thought I was ‘late’ or otherwise ‘inconvenienced,’ that had to happen in order for me to end up exactly where I am right now. What choices did I make that contributed to those events? Or, more to the point, what choices did I make that contributed to me being exactly where I am, right now, in whatever situation I happen to find myself, like it or not?
It helps me remember that I’m in control, not necessarily of what other people do, but definitely of how I respond to those things, and what actions I choose to take … or not to take. It also reminds me that whatever I choose to do or not do today will eventually make a contribution to future moments, whatever they may be. And I can act in order to hopefully create those future moments in a way that I find enjoyable.
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