Today was suppose to be a post of a short story, but alas, I am allowed to change “my list” as the creative spark ignites.

Besides, I went to see Blondie & X tonight, and I have about 20 mins to whip a post together. (Deborah Harry is still a rock goddess, in case you were wondering.)

As I stated in a previous post: I want to push myself creatively and go outside my comfort zone mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually and explore topics I normally wouldn’t share vocally with others.In other words, I’m exposing the darker regions of my mind to the humanoids of the Universe. I’m scared and excited about stripping parts of my personal facade in the name of creative writing.

And as I read this line from a post on Tiny Buddha, I realized why I am writing and doing this writing challenge: “I didn’t care if anyone knew; I had done it for me.”

With this 30 Day Writing Challenge in exposing and exploring, so far I have realized the following:

• I trust myself.
• I trust my instincts.
• I have an open mind that keeps wanting to open and explore and expose things.
• I have let go of the fear that others might not like what I have to say/write/feel/think.
• I have and am still finding what is true to me and I am loving the journey.
• I am taking risks I would not have previously considered.
• I have so far, enjoyed stripping away at my personal facade to find myself, to find my voice as a writer, to find where I stand as human.
• I have learned what it means to be bold, daring, and risky…and I like it.
• I started living my life without judgement. I am working on not judging people at all for their words, actions, opinions as I no longer judge mine. I remind myself “interesting point of view, I/you have that point of view.”
• If no one reads anything I write, that is okay because I wrote it for myself in the first place as a way to clear out my head, my heart, my soul, my being.
• If one person, ten people, or an entire fucking village reads what I write, that is kick ass and I thank everyone (yeah you, reading this right now) for taking a moment to stop in and peer into my world. Thank you for reading this and anything else you might stumble up on here. That means a lot to me.
• If you read this and want to share it with someone, well by all means, send them a link. If it helps anyone in any way, then rock on. I am glad I could lift, inspire, etc. Thank you for sharing as well.

Mostly in the last 12 days and in the last 2 months, I’ve had a great adventure in self discovery and I am so very glad I was able to trust myself, my instincts, keep my mind open, let go of fear, and be bold.