Violet Sharp All the world is a cage.

become unstuck (read all 8 entries…)
Week two... 18 months ago

... no progress to report. Still feel hopeless. I’ve even tried writing it out on a marker board, and it looks pretty hopeless. It’s a case of, “If this happens, then I could do this, but it hasn’t and I’m not ready to try this thing and plus this happened so I can’t do that and if I do this, then this will happen and I don’t want that, I want this but I don’t know if I can, plus there’s the problem of this, and if I don’t do that, then this is going to happen…”

It goes on even longer in my head.

I feel like I just barely started to get to a place where I liked my life and myself, and I’m already going to lose it. I am still holding out hope that I don’t have to give it up so soon. Realistically, I am going to lose something I wish I could keep.

I think hope is something you must be born feeling, not taught, because I sure as hell have had no reason to keep doing it. I surprise myself by doing it often.

Thanks for listening.



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RP is swimming through paper.

I've had

to do this . . . :(
I still don’t have what I want, but I have a different mix and better long term prospects.

Hawk~ he's back.

Just keep

putting change in the road trip jar. Road trips cure an awful lot of things in life.

An awful lot.

Violet Sharp All the world is a cage.

Yeah, well...

... had to use that money for food already. Eating seems to be good for me, too. :)

Hope I can start it again soon.

RP is swimming through paper.

no road trip? :(

I hope you are doing ok, VS. Well, I know that you aren’t, so that’s a stupid thing to say. I really hope something opens up for you soon, unforeseen as it may be at the moment.

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Contemplative Jenn is longing, forcefully

It's amazing

how interconnected all the pieces are, and how often you have to do what feels like going back to the beginning in order to make progress. I don’t mean to sound cyncial, but I venture that hope has little to do with it at this point, sweetie. It’s tenacity. Endurance. And maybe a little dash of vision. What you may lose for awhile you will get back (in the larger sense at least), if it’s worth having, and getting. And clarity will come. It will.

{{{{{{{{Violet}}}}}}}}

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Violet Sharp All the world is a cage.

IT'S YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

How are you?

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Violet Sharp All the world is a cage.

Kinda sloppy...

... it’s hard to tattoo yourself! :)

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That's exactly what I want to say

So I’m just gonna draw an imaginary arrow up to your comment, because if I tried to draw one with the keyboard, I’d end up formatting this all funky.

sabryn okay...how about a calm December?

You, too?

I get that voice in my head a lot. A lot.

The thing with hope, though, is that it grows. Find some small corner of something to pin your hope on – something solid, something you can safely hope for. With that beneath you, it gets easier (and safer) to hope for other things. Smarter things. (I’ve hoped for the stupid things and paid the price. You learn, eventually…)

Good luck to you!


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