Lent’n again…
I am, for all intents and purposes, not a particularly religious person. Atheist seems a fitting term, though I’m not particularly concerned with proving my viewpoint. That being said, I am quite fond of the Christian practice of Lent. Though I would participate as a kid, being that I did go to church every Sunday, I fell out of the practice as an adult. Once I started to work towards sobriety, however, I found it again. There’s something empowering about denying one’s self things that we enjoy, doing without to remind ourselves that not only can we live without, but how wonderful it is to have whatever it is we chose to do without. I was consistent with it for a number or years, though fell back out of practice when covid hit. Now, I’m back to trying it again.
This year I’m shooting for a total of 7 goals, though I’ve certainly had varying experience with them already. No soda, no eating out, no social media (my cheat one), no fried food (accidently failed this day one), no masturbation (of course I failed this already, I fail it every year) encompass what I’m giving up. In addition to giving things up, I want to count calories for at least 30 of the 40 days and to write a minimum of 500 words everyday. We’ll see how it goes. The ones I fail I just pick back up and try again, doing my best to at least get a better streak going on the next attempt.
I like the challenge that these tasks bring because it does seem to give me a bit of positivity towards other challenges in life that I didn’t necessarily want to deal with at a given time. Case in point: I’m going to have to move soon. To be fair, it was always a possibility that I’d have to, given I’d only signed an 11 month lease, but I’m rather fond of my little apartment and was hoping to stay. That hope faded, however, when I received my renewal offer and saw that if I signed for another year, my rent was going to more than double. Thanks but no thanks. I can only assume that the property is wanting to renovate and would thusly rather see me go than hold off making some changes that would allow them to charge more. Oh well. What are you gonna do?
I’ve got a few changes I’d like to implement here soon, the biggest being a better WIP system. Instead of always updating them to this blog, I’ll keep a separate section where each piece is a post and every time I make some progress, I’ll upload it to the corresponding post. Doing this should create a nice little timeline of work on each piece. I’ll include works from Ephemerol, Kunte, and my stand-alone pieces, though I haven’t decided if I want to include written works yet or anything story based. I’ve been writing the script for a one-shot comic I’m getting excited about and have been trying to finish up the next book, but I’m not sure how worthwhile adding those to the WIP list might be. The only tricky part of this system is what to name the posts. I hate naming pieces, but I’m sure I can find a way around this.