Tag: life lessons
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Obsessive Thoughts
a poem How does one turnObsession into disgustIf that obsessionDrags you into shit?Making you believeit does somethingDifferent than thatHow can one part waysWith a bad habit?When discomfort and fearBeckon for it to comeSo they might hide from youOr rather, so you mightHide from themCan you change itInto simple boredom?And choose a challenge instead?How can one…
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Ease of Difficulty
a poem Why aren’t good habits easy?And bad habits hard?Why must that path make us suffer so,In trying to do well for the world?As if doing good is to be punishedShoved away like a diseaseBecause it is too difficult to bearAnd yet I remember lifeHow the root of the tree breaks rockHow life must fight…
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Relearning to Start
The first step is always difficult. Even when confidence is high, the beginning of any new journey is wrought with the factors of the unknown. We know little of how well we are going to be, of what the steps on the path will bring to us as we move forward. Around each bend resides…
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Learning Something On 30+ Years Of (Trying to Be)ing A Writer
My intention is cathartic. Write a long essay or blog post centered on what I’ve learned about writing and my relationship with it and relay the path forward I chose based on those lessons. It’s to review my thinking and process it one last time for this site. And given the impending doom (he says…
Jeremy C Kester 