Eclectic Narratives - Discomfort

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That feeling, the terrible feeling, that indiscernible feeling, that uncertain feeling.

Are you sick or just stressed?

Is it the sign of something real or imagined?

Do you have a problem, or do you only think there’s one?

Is that discomfort from a new or unknown issue?

Or did you create one with one too many anxious thoughts?

No matter what you do, it doesn’t seem to go away.

Is it because there’s something wrong or because you can’t convince yourself otherwise?

All one can do is wonder until the answer reveals itself.

Maybe as the days tick by, you suddenly feel so much better.

Maybe it all really was in your head.

Every symptom only grew worse when you thought it did.

Every pain, every sore, every pang of nausea, all originating from your paranoid mind.

Now, if only you could convince yourself of that.

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Ailments comes, goes, lingers and returns. You never know which you get until you ride it out.

Author's Note: Inspired by my on and off bouts with random health problems that while they are overall minor are annoyingly persistent and might be mostly stress or strained muscles from improper workouts (or both).

Until next time, Read, Comment and Enjoy.

Eclectic Narratives - Didn't Make It

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Sometimes you just don’t make it.

Time slips away.

Days zip by.

Tomorrow becomes today and then yesterday.

Plenty of time became no time at all.

Goals were failed, targets missed.

You had so many grand ideas and so much time to do them.

But you never realize how little time you actually had.

Sadly, this just happens.

At the end of the day, it’s okay.

Sometimes you take a shot, and you miss.

But at least you shot your shot.

You didn’t do what you wanted, but you did do something at least.

And often, what you wanted to do is still there for you to do.

Sometimes, sadly, you only get the one chance, and then you blow it.

But other times, you just have to wait for the opportunity to present itself again.

It may be tomorrow, it may be a decade from now.

Be patient, keep on working as you do, or even a little harder if you can.

You may have more chances than you think.

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Sometimes you just don't make it, and that's just how things turn out.

Author's Note: Aka, my admittance that I still haven't finished the next chapter of Maid in Fantasy. It's still a work in progress, but at least I got some actual work done on it last week. I was hoping to be finished with the next chapter by the end of the year, but it wasn't meant to be. Hopefully, I can get it and my other story ideas out into the world during the next year. Not an unreasonable goal. 

Until next time, Read, Comment and Enjoy.

Eclectic Narratives - Delay by Delay

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            An unfortunate case, an uncomfortable reality.

            A lack of result, a lack of completion.

            The last thing you want to do, the only thing you can do.

            The devastating crossroad, the horrid choice.

            You must delay, you must set it back.

            Not the choice, not the action.

            But your goal, your destination.

            You are not ready, you are not prepared.

            Time makes fools of us all, especially now.

            Your only choice is to swallow your pride and accept the loss.

            It is time to delay your project.

            Whether by a day, a week, a month, or more.

            It will not be ready, it will not be done, not in time.

            But what choice is there?

            To rush would make no one happy.

            To delay might make someone happy.

            It is better to gamble on the chance of success than to take certain failure.

            It is not a license to slack off or put off your responsibilities.

            It is a deliberate choice, a commitment.

            A desire to take your time and do things right.

            To delay is not desirable.

            But delaying might make it worthwhile in the end.

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Take your time, you have precious little of it.

Author's Note: Delay aka The story I had planned for this week wasn’t done in time, so I made this to buy another two weeks. I wrote it at a steady pace and kept up a good rhythm, too. But I wanted to take my time editing, really make sure I was happy with it instead of rushing it out the door, and I quickly realized I didn’t have that kind of time if I tried to release it today, so here we are. I promise the next story posted will be the one I’m talking about. Then I’ll get to work on the next Maid in Fantasy chapter (still no ETA for that).

Until next time, Read, Comment and Enjoy.