Writing Challenge — Day 17

Mission Aborted

I am not going to lie, I was expecting this day to arrive. I had some hope to achieve 20 days, at least. Did not come true. But as said in my line of work, Goals are not meant to be achieved. They are meant to guide you. What matters is what you become in the process. If you ask me “How committed were you, on a scale of 1–10, with this Writing Challenge?”, my answer would be “Pretty excited at first, but a 5 overall, as I did not make it such a priority in my life.”

I own no explanations, to anyone. Still, after all this time, I felt like I should be transparent and come face the fact that this is over. It was a nice, engaging episode, that I took in a too interesting phase of my life, to make this a priority. You, on that side of the screen reading this. If you write daily articles, blog posts, or whatever it is, I salute you. You know the dedication and commitment needed to make it happen. In the current part of my life, although I may have such dedication and commitment (it’s 7:20 am, I am in a great city, with a most amazing person and I am here, writing this. So…), it is not a priority right now, for me, to keep this going.

Writing in a different language was both a fun and challenging experience. That’s why I called it a writing challenge, I guess, amongst other factors. I did learn a lot from it. More about me, in…