August 4: Things I Don't Give Myself Credit For
August 4: Things I Don't Give Myself Credit For
August 1: Dear Me, Right Now
18 Love Letters
I wanted to write a long, extensive love letter to myself for my birthday. And I wanted to make August very special for me. In recent years I've really learned to sit with myself, to understand me and enjoy my own company. I genuinely crave this closeness to myself, and when life becomes crowded and fast-paced, I miss me. So I asked ChatGPT to create 18 prompts, one to write to myself each day until my birthday (August 18), which would eventually add up to the extensive love letter. I want to publish it here for a few reasons. One, so that I commit to continuing. And more importantly, so that I have it cemented somewhere, a place I can revisit and read whenever I need to.
Here's day 1:
A book review: Strangers
To love with abandon is a rarity. Belle Burden's memoir of marriage and divorce didn't win me over, but it left me thinking about the power we hand the people we love, and whether we can ever take it back.
A Book Review: The Correspondent
"I want to start by saying I read this book in two days, that is the fastest time I have ever read a book.”
Book Review: Yesteryear
"It shows you how happiness can merely be a still image curated for a post, or directed in video format, when the reality is so dry and lacking of joy it hurts to witness, or to read."
When No One is Watching: who are you?
"It is this deeply etched pursuit of my own goodness. It's in simpler terms the answer to this question, am I a good person?"
A List of Things I Will Do on Vacation to Come Back To me
My nervous system has been put on mute just to cope. So, to shock my body into feeling emotions again and restart my broken heart, I made a list of things I'll do on this trip to actually feel it.
Hello July!
This month I intend to waste 0 days. I want to make it a summer of a lifetime.
Don't let the sinkhole swallow you
I've been trying my best to get out of bed every day and not wallow in my heartbreak.
How do you tell someone disappointing news?
The way people find out really changes the way the news impacts them, think twice before you pick up the phone.
you really don't know what people are going through
what's not easy is to contain the hurt and not let it affect anyone else.
Hello June!!!
What I want more of from June:
Refiring the engine!! Getting out of bed with a vengeance to seize the day!! I'm not letting doomscrolling steal my time.
