sentencing myself happy.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself.

Prompt #2:

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would you describe today using only one sentence? Tell today’s sentence to one other person. Repeat each day.

(Prompt by Liz Danzico)

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Words are reductive and cannot contain the day, the afternoon, the night; instead they approximate and hold the slightest essence of the true experience; this "royal road" of a straight line from yesterday to today to tomorrow is a lie because we are all zigzagging, all the time–there are no straight lines, not really; and today is the only now there is:

I am choosing to be happy ahead of time.

That's my self-imposed sentence, one in which I sentence myself to choose happy instead of clinging to right; to choose happy in every circumstance, however dire and dark; to choose happy in advance. Call me naive for doing so. I love the sheer ecstacy of naive.

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I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself.

[necklace by Cynthia Deis at Ornamentea]