The last two months have been big ball of stress. My mom got sick, ended up in the hospital, then rehab, then my house. In the meantime I had to clean out her upstairs apartment because she can no longer climb the stairs to her place and needed to move into a first floor apartment. So I had six weeks to clear out twenty-nine years worth of saving. Plus my mother-in-law (I'm her caregiver) was jealous. Now to add to the mix I had a family reunion happening but I couldn't leave the two mom's alone. My sister-in-law said she couldn't come to stay with them and my mother-in-law fought against us bringing in someone to cook for them and make sure they were okay.
I'm not telling you this for sympathy but to show that no matter what goes on around you, you can still write. I did. It wasn't much - maybe a line or two each day but I made that effort to put words on the page. Life will interfere, there's no way around it, but you need to work through it all to keep writing. There are too many distractions in life to makes us stop. I could have dropped everything, and came close, but my writing is my passion and I knew I couldn't give it up.
I'm not telling you this for sympathy but to show that no matter what goes on around you, you can still write. I did. It wasn't much - maybe a line or two each day but I made that effort to put words on the page. Life will interfere, there's no way around it, but you need to work through it all to keep writing. There are too many distractions in life to makes us stop. I could have dropped everything, and came close, but my writing is my passion and I knew I couldn't give it up.
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