Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-three of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Monday, and everything’s back to normal following another weekend warrior drinking binge that had me sick as a dog and struggling to create my pages over the past couple of days. Though the hangover is gone, my back is still being very annoying especially now that most of the pain is gone except for one sweet spot that makes it impossible to find a comfortable way to sit in my new office seat.

I’m now kind of bummed that I went for an office chair a firm ergonomic design instead of the over-padded gaming chair that looked like a very comfy piece of office furniture. I decided to go with the firm chair instead because my last chair was big and comfy but seemed to lose any of its supporting structure after a few years of wear and tear. I figured this firmer chair who provide the structure my back news over the comfort that my butt wants.

Then again, I think this might have been the right move because it does seem like my back pain has been improving ever since the chair came in. I guess I’m just annoyed right now because, unlike with my last chair, it takes me forever to find a sitting position that actually feels comfortable and kind of regret buying this thing online because it’s too large to return without it being a hassle even though I have yet to look into what it would actually take.

I guess that’s all part of the fun of the uncertainty of shopping online, which is the theme of the assignments that I’m here to report on for today. Yesterday’s assignment didn’t have a real task to work on because it mainly focused on trying to get me to see uncertainty as a positive thing and not something to be feared. In fact, the book went as far as to say if someone approached you with a proposal while promising a certain outcome, you shouldn’t trust that person one-hundred percent because this is an impossible thing to guarantee.

Though things have changed in recent years since I started to be more of a shut-in, I used to dread certainty because it was a sign that I was settling into a boring life. At the time, I hated the idea of knowing what was to come every single day of the week, waking at precisely the same time, always having the stop at the same exact light, always eating the same meal on Monday’s because my work’s café always had the same week starting special. This always sounded like purgatory to be when I’d rather be in heaven or hell if only I believed any of the three existed.

Now, I enjoy the certainty that for the most part I’m left alone. Though I’m enjoying this boring life at the moment, while I continue to climb out of the hole that I dug when I had my midlife crisis meltdown, I hope to one down build up a life with much more variety even if I’ll still probably be by myself. Notice that I said probably and not certainly because I am open to the idea of letting others back into my life as soon as I work through a couple of more issues in my head.

This actually plays into today’s assignment where I’m supposed to reflect on the Churchill quote about certainty that’s at the top of this page where it claims that it’s these unsure moments in life that provide the drama that keeps life interesting. I wholeheartedly agree with this concept which why I lived with such a “where ever the winds may take me,” approach to my earlier life that I’d still be living right now if I wasn’t so burnt out from living on a whim for so long.

This may sound like I’m finishing this thing up with a contradiction, claiming how I love one way of life but need a break from it because it’s so hard. The point of the quote is how uncertainty can create an interesting existence, and not an easy one. I’ll delve into this more when I check in with tomorrow’s update. Until then, it’s now time to wrap this thing up as usual by saying, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.

Talk to you soon.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker

P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.