Saturday, October 10, 2015

October 9: Writing Prompt #282-Can’t Get Enough

Have you ever been addicted to anything, or worried that you were? Have you ever spent too much time and effort on something that was a distraction from your real goals? Tell us about it.
Well, if you had asked me this yesterday (on the actual October 9, 2015), I would have told you I was a bit addicted to writing this blog, which IS one of my real personal goals, but not a goal that is more important than all the other goals in my life. For example, I make sure I complete this blog every day, but sometimes that means my professional development class assignments fall behind because my personal goal to blog daily for a year is my addiction; whereas, my professional goals are my livelihood, a bit more important, wouldn’t you say.  I sometimes sacrifice sleep for my blogging and sometimes put my son or husband on hold until I finish writing and posting. If that’s not a type of addiction, I don’t know what addiction is, I guess.  J 

That said, I now know that it is not as serious an addiction as I originally thought because until 5 pm TONIGHT, OCTOBER 10, I forgot to write my Oct. 9th blog on addiction.  This is the first time in the 281 finished days of 2015 that I completely forgot because some family concerns took precedence over my mind and heart. A true addiction would have overridden even that, so thank goodness, I am not hopelessly addicted, only marginally addicted to blogging.  So, tonight, unfortunately, you get double-duty, just like me, as you read two blog entries. 

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