It’s a funny thing. I set up an 84 day challenge to jumpstart my writing.
I still haven’t written any fiction words during these five days. But my blog streak keeps going.
The problem is when you set up a writing challenge and then you don’t write anything, you run out of easy things to talk about.
It’s at this point that I usually throw in the towel and give up. That’s been my pattern in the past.
The problem with giving up is a lot of the time it puts you in places you don’t want to be.
It’s been a rough few days and the more I think about it the more it occurs to me that the purpose of life is to teach us courage.
I don’t know why courage is important and I don’t know why suffering is part of life but both things are true.
The cost of cowardice is living the life you don’t want.
Acting courageously may lead to a terrible end result, but in the end were all going to die anyway, and courage is a good skill to cultivate.