Day 23: Monday, August 23
Write a song
As adventures go, today’s was fairly low stakes, though not easy. To write a good song – something meaningful and impactful – requires a dive deep inside, an inner exploration that might bring you to internal places you haven’t been in a while, if ever. It can be a risky or difficult emotional journey. The song I wrote for today’s adventure is a ballad, and addresses ironies and contradictions in the ways people communicate in relationships, the ways in which we verbally dance in order to care for feelings instead of being forthright and honest. It’s not my best, not my worst. Someday I’ll perform it, when it’s refined and ready.
Adventure: Write a song
Distance traveled: An inward, emotional journey, immeasurable distance.
Challenges: Engaging emotions, venturing deep inside where difficult feelings may live.
Risks: Hitting up against hard thoughts, memories and feelings.
Difficulty scale 1-10: 7
Highlights: The feeling of reward when the song is finished; playing the song in its entirety.