She definitely did not have easy goals for life. Reading 50 books per year , cooking 50 new dishes , visiting 10 new places in the same year,so on.
Every accomplishment was beginning of a new strangeness. Until her life seemed hollow to her – the dark pit she dug and drowned alone.
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Written for Inspiration Monday , Trifecta , G-Man’s fridayflash55
Hollow…who you? Life cant do any such things to you :*
thanks for the kind words dear !
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goodness, sad. Though great last line. And as I’m about to turn 50 I wonder about the having to do 50 things of this and that…maybe that will be my 50th year.
Even with good plans one must find some spontaneity in their life…that spice.
I love the idea of the accomplishment brings a feeling of strangeness. Loved the last ending.
Sometimes routing can become endless when there is nothing new and different to look forward to. Nicely written.
I love it. I feel like I’ve been there before–you push yourself so much to try new things that you end up foreign even to yourself. Great response.
I kinda feel like this too. I try to do new things and even when I manage it, it sometimes feels like it hasn’t changed much :/ Great work!
Sometimes goals can suffocate, keep the obligation and expectation going even when its of our own choosing. Well done on expressing that emptiness.
Great writing. Monotonous can seem hollow, after a time.
I like this. You’d think that trying so many new things would lead to a full life. I guess it’s just like anything, if we’re doing it just to cross it off a list, there’s no emotional attachment to give it meaning.
love this! we often try to compensate for our hollow lives by doing more things or getting more stuff. when we do not reach our goal we think if only when we reach it we would be satisfied. but when we do accomplish them, we still feel discontent because we were wrong about what we needed all along.
Your words really resonated with me. Always setting goals when really just avoiding what’s in front of me! Well done.
ambition, pursuit of goals…often we jettison relationships on this course or perhaps we are running away.
I’m all for spontaneity in life, more fun that way!
Oh dear…that’s not how it’s meant to work. Maybe if she had read 55 books…?
Indeed–outside content does not automatically give inside meaning, nor is life a list that can be checked off. Perceptive 55.
Experiencing the new should not be like this. Too regimented, perhaps?
well this takes a very sad turn…i like her goals…and trying something new…we have to make sure we dont throw out the baby with the bath water though….
Those are attainable goals Lady Nimue
But then again, we all change our mind.
Loved your sad twist
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Thanks for playing, and have a Kick Ass Week-End
Hollow? Sounds like she’s picking the wrong goals. : )
Potent piece.
Hmm. Perhaps she needed a few more exciting goals. Perhaps if she had switched it around. Visit 50 new place, make 10 new dishes, 🙂
Funny how ambitions and goals can turn to puffs of smoke.
Focussed on ‘doing’ and forgetting to ‘be’. Nice