"I Am Thinking It's Time"

I am thinking it’s time for more positive thinking. Today, I completed my first forty hour work week in over two years and my first overtime in almost four years. As I look back through the last five years or so, there were times when I couldn’t help but feel emotionally, physically, and sometimes, even totally drained, spiritually. This week was a milestone, indeed. The task in my writing will be challenged to the edge. Previously, for the most part, my writing has been focused on preventing oneself from collapsing totally to the floor after being knocked to your knees. I visualized myself in the middle of a large body of water after the sinking of my boat with only my own strength and will to survive to get me back to the shoreline. Treading water can be a bitch! But, it hasn’t been the first time I have had to begin again from scratch, finding myself doing so three times out of the last eight years. You would think I have become a pro at this. I am not a professional by a long shot, but I have improved with each occasion and I am always learning something new. With this past week ending as it did, I have a sense of renewal, of hope, that I haven’t had in a long while and it does feel good. I am going to hold onto that as if my life depends on it…because it does.