Scalzi assignment #20

Weekend Assignment #20: Tell us about your favorite entry of your own from the last 366 days (it's a leap year). Tell us why it still resonates for you. And "favorite" can mean anything you want it to mean: Most amusing, most heartbreaking, most affirmative of yourself, whatever. One good way to think of it is if you could show someone only one entry from your Journal, which one would it be?

     This was the 2nd AOL-J entry that I ever wrote, written on March 24th (notice it had 0 comments).

     I decided to copy and paste, instead of linking to the entry so I can add a related graphic (taken from one of my old journals) and also maybe I will read it a few times this week when I come to post a new entry in Dancing in the Rain.

     Being the lighthouse is still the biggest part of who I am but I am spending a little more time these day's looking out for me:-)

 

Thursday, March 25, 2004
8:35:00 AM EST  

Just like a lighthouse

     I often direct so much of my time and energy to taking care of what's best for the people I love the most. It can become all consuming and often I forget to take care of what's most important me.

     I want my daily rounds to be motivated by making necessary choices that will bring more health, joy, love, creativity, passion and contentment to my own life.

     Today my journey changes direction as I begin to reclaim my life. I will search for the knowledge and determination to make the crucial changes in behavior, thought and attitude so I can become the best that I can be. 

     Over 25 years ago, one of my closest friends Chris wrote a song called Just like a Lighthouse. The lyrics included a part that said "I'm just like a lighthouse on a stormy sea, if your boat gets lost you can depend on me. When it's cold as the rain and it's black as the night, look for me and I am always in sight. But all I want to know is who, who looks out for me when I'm looking out for you?"

     The truth is no one, no one looks out for me. I have spent so much time looking out for them when I should have spent more time looking out for me.

                                  *** Coy ***

      

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