Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-eighteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Sorry if my Daily Breaker post and SNL review were a bit rambly yesterday, I was nursing a box wine hangover which made it hard to focus as I rushed to get through my day. The nice part was that I was feeling just ill enough to where I only wanted sleep but the day after drinking sickness wasn't bad enough to where I couldn't get comfortable, so I was able to achieve my slumber goals.

I then spent all day chasing a dream that started with my first attempt at a nap. Don't worry, this isn't going to be another post where I attempt to explain said dream, but that's only because I can't remember a single detail and just know that it provided me the motivation to catch up on some much needed Zs. I now feel nice and refreshed and no longer on the cusp of depression like how I was feeling throughout most of last week.

I think, especially during this phase of my life where I have very little social interaction, these dreams create an illusion of involvement that helps to regulate my mood. This might be why ever since I switched to a graveyard schedule to cope with how long my last bout with sciatica would extend my day, due to being bedridden and typing on my belly.

I loved revisiting the post-midnight world once again because that used to be the only time that I would even attempt to make my pages. Where in the past, when I used to mainly write fiction, I used to spend so much time in fictional worlds that I felt this play time may have taken the place of my dreams because they didn't come often yet I still felt the creative release. 

Now that I mainly write non-fiction for this blog, the work may be fun but it's also so grounded in reality that I no longer get to escape to fantastical worlds like I used to which might be why dreams may seem so important at this time in my life. All of the rambling about fantasy and dreams leads us to yesterday's assignment where the Achieve Anything... book has just shifted its focus to the topic of wonder which might also help to lift my mood, considering last week's focus on morals may have also contributed to why I was feeling a little down.

Once again, this assignment highlights why this Achieve Anything...  book isn't meant for me as it explains the importance of wonder as if the reader might be dragging their feet while attempting to share the benefits of keeping in touch with your child's-heart. It's lessons like these that reminded me that this book is aimed more at people with business minds. To me, it seems, if you're creative at all, the importance of wonder wouldn't be pushed as if it were such a big surprise.

In fact, if I wasn't still so tapped into my child's-heart where I'm continually caught in wonder, I don't think I'd want to be part of the miserable world. If I wasn't able to escape into my made-up worlds, this existence would feel even more like a prison to me, especially as I grow older and feel less accepted by the people strive for a more tradition trip on this world.

I know that some may say that my approach isn't actually living but I beg to differ and know for a fact that if I could support this simple shut-in lifestyle through my writing alone, I would be a very content man. This actually plays into today's assignment where I'm supposed to share my plan to be able to cope with the woes of adult living without losing the child-like spirit and maintain a playful heart.

Of course, I'll delve deeper during tomorrow's update/post where this assignment will be my main focus. Until then, it's now time for me to wrap this thing up, and in order to do so, I'll sign off 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.