...it's time to dive in. I've been keeping a journal for the past year after putting it on the back burner for years. I'm an empty-nester since my teenager joined the Army last year. I'm not sure who has made the quantum leap, he or I?
He has journeyed across this country and seas as he leaves the nest, taking giant steps on his path to adulthood. Now I'm having to do the same venturing forth on my own path of self-discovery. All the "smelling the roses along the way" didn't prepare me as much as expected. Therein lies the rub...expectations...brittle ones at that. Thinking four years in college provided plenty of time to loosen the ties that bind one to a protracted childhood. Who knew the cultivated independent streak I relished, would bite so deep?
Learned about the 90-in-90, via Twitter, from Ball State University Journalism professor, Brad King, who encouraged his students to write each day, completing 90 entries during that time. A great idea to unpack some emotional baggage and unburden my soul, just not in public on the Internet. His students had specific goals while others were hitting their stride just settling down to write something each day. A group of his writers wrote AND published a book on their own time. If I Leave Here Tomorrow: Tales of Risk and Rebirth by Invictus Writers Vol 1 is a collection of spirit moving essays. Comforting, as I embraced their transitions that all young adults endure and are better for the experience.
Scribbling each day, just a few jots abouts my emotional roller coaster as it roared down the steep valleys, bounded sharp curves and chugged up the steep highs; just in my journal. Following the winding roads that are part of the parent-child experience while doing things that are in each of our own best interests. Still leaving room for each to come and go as Uncle Sam permits. Encouraging each other to make the most of each day because there's no rosy future promised to anyone!
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