Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Twelve, Dateline 4-22-2018
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“If the only prayer that you ever say in your life is thank you, it will be enough.”
Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-twelve of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s a Sunday, meaning it’s also the end of week number sixteen of this challenge. Unfortunately for me it being Sunday also makes it extra annoying that the topic of today’s assignment is prayer. Yes, once again, the Achieve Anything… points out that you don’t have to be religious in order to fulfill the task at hand but as a non-believer, this feels like a passive-aggressive approach to pushing a belief by preemptively putting it out there that I’m being closed-minded by not wanting to play along because we all know how accepting religious-types are when it comes to conflicting belief.
Yes, I am generalizing, but the book did it first and I would have said anything if I wasn’t so annoyed by the drug pusher style approach of “just trying a little,” in a tone where any pushback on my end is then seen as negative when they’re the ones who are not respecting my belief system. Again, even most non-believers don’t mind religious undertones when rebranded as just being spiritual, but for me personally, when it comes to what and how I believe, I just want to be left alone.
If you notice, when I do bring up religion, I only focus on what it means to me without trying to get anyone else to agree and would like the same in return. Once again, I got ahead of myself by focusing more on today’s assignment in my intro when I should save these thoughts for tomorrow since I’m supposed to be sharing the results of yesterday’s task where I was supposed to explore the idea that determination is the fuel required to make the impossible possible.
I hope to someday discover this is true considering how my determination to make a living off of my writing has been in full force for over twenty years, and so far all I’ve managed to do is lose everything while continuing to fail while forcing a smile as I fake it till I make it. Again, unlike the new “American Dream” where it seems like if you’re not aiming to be a billionaire, your efforts are just a joke, by making a living off of my writing, I mean earning maybe thirty-grand a year with work that is good but may never top any best sellers list or ever getting to a point where I am easily recognized. That said, I do feel that if I do pull this is my own determination is the main thing I have to thank.
Speaking of thanks, today’s assignment is to say a prayer to thank whatever God means to me for providing this shitty life. Keep in mind, this is coming from a place where as miserable as I find my existence to be, I find it hard to thank even the least religious-based creator for creating a world where so many others have to struggle while a select few get to live luxurious lives by hoarding all of the resources and to add insult to injury, most of these resource hoarders are the leaders of churches who ask for more while telling others to live within their means.
It looks like the book is going to stick with this spiritual theme for a bit so brace yourself for a run of posts where I may seem a little extra annoyed. As always, I’ll delve more into today’s assignment when I check in with tomorrow’s update. Until this, it’s time for me to wrap this thing up 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.
