Day to Day happenings in my life

It’ll be okay

PROMPT January 17th

What do you do to escape or distract yourself from negative thoughts and emotions? How do you take your mind off something you don’t want to think about?

Writing takes my mind off everything except the story I’m working on. It’s a form of meditation or certainly mindfulness. It’s impossible to think about anything else.

However I agree with Charlie ~ some things have to be faced head on. The best plan then is to give the problem all your attention for an allotted period of time. It’s like “Okay, problem, I’m going to give you thirty minutes of my full attention.”

My family don’t take a great interest in politics but even they had opinions about the USA’s attempted coup. My granddaughter’s husband Joe, seemed happy to have a good discussion about the situation with me. However we did disagree on the subject of free speech. I thought removing social media platforms from Mr Trump’s arsenal was a good idea. However Joe said he thought taking a person’s right to free speech is never good. I decided to leave the discussion at this point. Perhaps in this case I needed to find a way of escaping from negative emotions. So I went to cool off in the pool. That worked.