I hope these journal prompts get better soon, because this is actually just the first week of them, and I've already begun to dread the exercise more than look forward to it. This is supposed to be a learning exercise. Self exploration. The prompt for this day is over a paragraph long, asking me to define my life as compared to others, and there really is no way to do that as this is the only life I have experienced and I can't say what is in another's mind.
Do you consider your true story to be one of pain or happiness
Yes, actually I do. Both. Ongoing and evolving. Pain and happiness. Which way the scale tips in the end is not for me to predict.
Do you think of your life as mostly easy or difficult.... and again, my life is far from over and to tip the scales at this time is not something I want to do. There have been plenty of difficult times. There have been many times that I thought were difficult. Life is a daily exercise. It can't be summed up so easily.
The prompt goes on and on for many more questions, all of which make me feel as if I have no control, when in fact each of us is in control of our lives, and our reactions to our lives. We are the only ones that could be. To compare my life to yours is not something I'd like to do. Nor to compare it to a life that I know nothing about.
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