When the clocks went forward this year I started writing again, on a new blog I set up for 2022. Since the post below I’ve written almost every day – it’s a flow like the one I enjoyed 12 years ago when I first discovered blogging! Come and follow me on Heart Space!
I’ve been putting this off, every day finding mundane tasks and distractions to take up the time while the internal pressure builds. Eventually it gets harder not to write than to write – especially when I keep coming back to the question, “What’s the point of my life now?” Through the fog of depression and apathy I begin to glimpse an answer – and it involves writing! Making yet another new start, overcoming the blockage, choosing a regular habit, doing the work – just being “present to the page” – is as hard as it has ever been. Self-doubt and laziness keep me in hiding.
But – ‘resistance is futile’ (congratulations if you recognise the quote). Spring is breaking out all around and after coming up to 6 months of mental and physical illness that have left me feeling empty and lost there is a call to lift my face…
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