Echoes of the Garage

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“I didn’t have direction… I had reactions”

Daily writing prompt
What gives you direction in life?

4:47 in the morning.

Coffee.

Dim room.

My orange fur ball behind me on the chair.


I’m about to head to the gym…

and I’m thinking about something.


For a long time…

I had no direction.


I wasn’t thinking.


I was feeling.


“I feel this.”
“They made me feel that.”
“That made me feel something.”


Just reaction after reaction.


No questions.


Then something changed.


I slowed down.


And I started asking myself:

Why are you doing this?

Why do you believe that?

Is that even true?


And then I did something different.


I didn’t just think about the answer.


I acted.


Not perfect action.

Not always the right action.


But action.


And that’s when I started seeing it.


Direction doesn’t come from feeling.


It comes from questioning…

and then moving.


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