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I’m struggling to write. So I looked up “stuff to write about everyday” and found “365 creative writing prompts”, which is horrifying but here I am, and I wanted to write about not being able to see ahead of you.
Recently in Utah there was an immense amount of fog in the mornings. I’m talking…you couldn’t even see more than 20 feet in front of you! I was on my way to work at 5:30am, and the streetlights cast an awfully orange glow everywhere, and it was hardly any better in the daylight. There’s a part of the road on the way to work that has no lights along it — kind of scary, but also really beautiful during the sunset and late at night (you can see the stars). When I hit that point, I could just see a few dashes of the white dividing line in front of me, and I immediately slowed down while some other people sped by me in the other lane.
Mainly, I didn’t want to die. And this is where one of my mentors would say “BUT DID YOU DIE THOUGH?”, since this has been his response as of late whenever I worry about something. I think that’s a pretty good way to look at life, right? Anyway.
Naturally, I couldn’t just write about fog because that’s…super boring. And I just had to make it about life. I’m in this place right now where I don’t know what my life is going to look like in 5 months. Or even next month, to be honest. Of course, no one can predict the future, but I’m in a transition mode where I’m gunning for a big girl job…that could land me anywhere in this great nation of ours. Just a little bit unclear, right?
