#reverb10 Day 20 – Beyond Avoidance

From Jake Nickell for #reverb10:

BEYOND AVOIDANCE:

What should you have done this year but didn’t because you were too scared, worried, unsure, busy or otherwise deterred from doing?

Well…

- I should have gone to the dentist more than once but I avoided going like the plague because after having my tooth snapped into four pieces and then abandoned in my mouth to form an infection of MONSTROUS proportions while I was shunted from referral list to referral list, I’d rather risk gingivitis than visit that hack practitioner again.

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#reverb10 Day 19 – Healing

The #reverb10 prompt for today comes from Leoni Allan and she asks:

HEALING:

What healed you this year? Was it sudden, or a drip-by-drip evolution? How would you like to be healed in 2011?

To put it pretty simply; nothing, neither and gradually.

A huge problem of mine was that I was irrationally attached to the idea of immediacy . Everything had to happen “now”. This led, unsurprisingly to a score of purchases that lay on my bedroom floor while I curled in the foetal position on my bed shaking with buyer’s remorse. It led to garbled thoughts and actions that left me riddled with regret. Time, it seemed, was out to ruin my life.

I applied this principle of now to important things such as feelings and emotions and ended up realising after I fell unceremoniously on my ass that some things just can’t be rushed, no matter how badly you try and no matter how fiercely you want to skip the process and leapfrog to the finishline.

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#reverb10 Day 18 – Try

From Kaileen Elise for #reverb10
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TRY:

What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you did / didn’t go for it?

I can’t lie. I’m not feeling inspired. I spent the entire day trying to think of something to write in response to this prompt. Even while scrubbing my room from top to bottom, donning my boots and trudging through a few feet of snow to buy ingredients to cook dinner for my friend tonight, I was pondering.

And I came up with nothing. Nada. Zip.

Then I read Patti’s response and it just hit me.

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#reverb10 Day 17 – Lesson Learned

Tara Weaver is the author of today’s #reverb10 prompt.

She asks:

What was the best thing you learned about yourself this past year? And how will you apply that lesson going forward?

Last night, although I was coughing and my head was pounding particularly insistently and although I needed sleep and was all set to sink into slumber, I ended up staying up past midnight watching Into the Wild.

If you haven’t watched it before, I suggest you do.

It details the life and death of one Christopher McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp who, disillusioned by life’s materialism and the constant pursuit of wealth as well as the emotional turmoil caused by finding out the truth about his parents’ affairs and life together, set out on an adventure devoid of possessions and material goods.

It’s a tragic story and one that brought tears to my eyes (although this could also be attributed to the Dengue Fever* that plagues my body) and one that I don’t think I’m going to be able to get out of my head anytime soon.

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#reverb10 Day 16 – Friendship

To understand my response to today’s #reverb10 prompt, you’ll need to read this post.

FRIENDSHIP:

How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst?

{courtesy of Martha Mihalick}

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