I have been thinking, a lot, about the ideas contained in your third paragraph, because they're on my mind, too. And I think you're absolutely right. Wanting new things -- going out and getting them -- is an excellent exercise. And a tiring one. I often get the feeling that I'm sitting at the bottom of this huge pit I've dug myself into, and the "doing things" involves exhaustive climbing out -- but I keep sliding down again, having to climb, and sometimes it's just ... BUT. Enough of that. I think the only thing we can do is just keep trying to do new, terrifying things, no matter how difficult it seems. Surrounding myself with people who have a lot of energy tends to help, I find, as does noting all of the positive things that come of Doing New Things and thinking of them when I have no energy.
/shuts up, because she sounds like some sort of terrible advice column
YOU, dear, are the protagonist of a novel that's going to become just brilliant. It's just one of those novels where it starts up slow, gives you lots of pages to fall totally in love with the wonderful main character before she goes off on wild escapades and triumphs. :D ♥
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Date: 2008-01-07 04:02 am (UTC)I have been thinking, a lot, about the ideas contained in your third paragraph, because they're on my mind, too. And I think you're absolutely right. Wanting new things -- going out and getting them -- is an excellent exercise. And a tiring one. I often get the feeling that I'm sitting at the bottom of this huge pit I've dug myself into, and the "doing things" involves exhaustive climbing out -- but I keep sliding down again, having to climb, and sometimes it's just ... BUT. Enough of that. I think the only thing we can do is just keep trying to do new, terrifying things, no matter how difficult it seems. Surrounding myself with people who have a lot of energy tends to help, I find, as does noting all of the positive things that come of Doing New Things and thinking of them when I have no energy.
/shuts up, because she sounds like some sort of terrible advice column
YOU, dear, are the protagonist of a novel that's going to become just brilliant. It's just one of those novels where it starts up slow, gives you lots of pages to fall totally in love with the wonderful main character before she goes off on wild escapades and triumphs. :D ♥