Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixteen, Dateline 8-4-2018
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“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Not only am I excited by the fact that it's Saturday, meaning that I have no day job to get to, I'm also over the moon that I'm ahead of my work enough to take the day off to do some marathon television watching.
The plan for the day is, as soon as I hit publish on this post, I will sit down and get caught up on the Netflix series GLOW. As soon as I got through the entire new season, the sun should be down which will set the right mood to move on to Stranger Things. I watched the first seasons for both the shows the moment they came out but have been struggling to set aside time to get into the new ones, so I'm excited to get caught up.
With that, let's dig into the assignments I'm here to report on so that I can get this party started. Yesterday's task was the last of the moral themed segment from the Achieve Anything... book that's had me feeling down all week by making me have to focus on the current state of the world and how morally bankrupt we seem to be as a society. Though I don't think this was the book's point, it did turn out to be the outcome.
The actual assignment was to share whether I accept change or resist it when it comes to the moral code. I feel that I fall somewhere in the middle because I personally accept change right away because of the go with the flow mentality that I developed in my youth. Some people may not believe that because, especially in the past, I would still make jokes about the growing taboos purely for the shock value while still accepting the new ways in my heart.
I can also come across as being anti-change because I feel that our old ugly ways shouldn't be cleaned up when it comes to history. I'm seeing a growing trend of people wanting to ban art that doesn't match up with the sentiments of modern times. As every psych student knows, if you bury an issue it doesn't disappear, it just develops deeper roots to pop up in different areas, so I feel like we should face these issues to learn.
As a child raised by alcoholics and enablers, I've learned that revisionist history to hide the horrors of yesterday leads to mental disorders in the younger victims who witness the chaos and want it to change only to be told it's a temporary ordeal that will soon be over. Yes the ordeals to end for the night, but this avoidance technic only guarantees their return, which is why we see the venting of frustration following the decades of lies that I've only know since I've been born.
And this is why this segment has been such a bummer. Thankfully, today is the start to a section of the book that's focused on wonder, which will put me in a much better place. Today, I'm supposed to think back to my childhood and share a few memories of when I was stricken by wonder as a child and they try to recapture how it made me feel while also thinking of ways to bring that feeling back to the present.
Of course, you'll have to wait for tomorrow's post to see what memories came about. Until then, it's time to wrap this thing up so that I can get started on watching my TV watching marathon. With that, it's now time to 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.
