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Why one word makes me melancholy

One word. Encapsulate the year in one word.

This is the first of a month of daily writing prompts supplied by Gwen Bell of the #reverb10 team and project. #reverb10 is about reflecting on this & manifesting what’s next.

  

Reflecting on this makes me a little sad because I think my one word for 2010 is planning. I wanted 2010 to be about fulfilment.

Planning feels like it’s about looking and a destination not yet reached. Chasing my feet and pushing and trying so hard to make things happen and probably ending up just where I would have if I had allowed it to happen instead with half as much energy spent.

But there is (always) a light! Part 2 of today’s prompt. “What do you want your word to be a year from now?”

I’ve already spent time on my 2010-11 annual review where I consider my word for 2011 and the word that sprang to mind was not harmony, or emerging or ease as was planned, but “being”.

Like human being.

Being instead of doing.

Being a being even.

Being … Carrie.

Being, instead of doing.

*Sigh*

 
In the words of the beautiful Brene Brown (if nothing else check her out here, a-may-zing),
                “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do”.
 
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