Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Four, Dateline 7-3-2018
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“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-four of Operation Achieve Anything. Today has started out to be a terrible day because I’ve been awake for two hours now and have barely gotten anything done. I’d be fine if there were a good excuse why things aren’t getting done. Hell, I’d even be happy if my late start was purely due to procrastination, but today is going super slow because my back pain has devolved to where I cannot sit for more than a couple of minutes before the pain is unbearable.
This means that I can only work for small bursts of time before hobbling back to my bed to lay down because that is the only way that I feel any relief. The thing that sucks the most is, up until yesterday I was starting to feel that this latest bout with sciatica was almost over. This really sucks because I was looking forward to being able to walk to the store once again, or at least get through an entire day without feeling miserable.
I tried to set up my laptop on my bed but that piece of garbage doesn’t have any of the software I need, and it runs as slow as all get out. To add to the fun, my oldest sister is dropping by with her kids for another random mid-week visit. Where I was looking forward to this visit when it first came up, it’s now feeling like added pressure while I continue to try to make all of my deadlines. If my back weren’t hurting so bad this morning, I’d probably be two hours into my day job already, and not still here struggling with my blog obligations, knocking out one paragraph at a time.
This uncertainty of whether or not I will make my day isn’t as great as the assignments that I’m here to report on today, as the Achieve Anything… is now filling space with a section devoted to the uncertain. Of course, the book is talking about uncertainties when it comes to making unsure choices. Today’s assignment was based on a Winston Churchill quote about how uncertainty creates the drama in life that makes being a human so exciting.
Though I agree with this sentiment to the point where this concept fueled the “go with the flow,” lifestyle that I was living in my early-twenties up until somewhere in my mid-thirties. Now, I would like a bit of a break from all of the drama and excitement and just live a boring life for a while, especially since all of the uncertainties in my life have grown to be more obnoxious and mundane and not the adventures they used to be.
For today’s assignment, it’s just more of the same talk about how great uncertainty can be, only now I’m supposed to write about how I feel about this concept, which is the same thing that I’ve been doing all week. So, between the fact that, tomorrow’s a holiday, I’m probably still going to be in pain, and am annoyed by the repetitive content, tomorrow might be an interesting post. As always, you’ll have to wait and see, but until then, it’s time for me to wrap this one 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.
