Retracing My Steps

[fangirljen]

My thoughts keep returning back to the post I made on February 29th. In that post, I went back to the post I made on February 29th, 2004. From the tone in that post, I read myself happier. There's a great reason for that too: I was only four months away from graduating with my BA. After five years in college, straight out of high school, I went eighteen years of schooling without any break. But, honestly, I feel more burnt out now than I did then. It's all in the work I'm doing, I think.

Tonight I started re-reading Ralph Wahlstrom's The Tao of Writing. It's been helpful so far in getting my brain start thinking simpler. I make things too difficult, too weighty. I'm in the mood for reconsolidating my life and settling in. In this process, I'm going to back to the beginning of my Livejournal life, all the way to December 2002, roughly 1130 journal entries, and try to pick back up on what I had working for me before.

Work's coming up soon. I need to get up in about five and a half hours now. I wish I had the time to start reading now.

Comments

[cosmicavatar.livejournal.com]

That's one thing I find so useful about blogging: going back and seeing how you were and what you were doing. Although I'm sure you already know that, because you and your circumstances are not the same as they were, you have to find new ways of doing things. I hope this exercise gives you insight, though.

[gloriatraveler.livejournal.com]

I've always heard that if you want to be successful, to find and follow a successful person. I think what you're doing is smart. If you want to find what you had going for you that made you happy then, revisiting it sounds like the best plan. Good Luck