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My new medication is giving me a tough time. I feel like my head is under water. I want to sleep all the time. It’s nothing severe. Just annoying. Hope these side effects subside. I think I can tolerate anything. Just hope that I can work and lose some weight.

I met my friends today. We’ve known one another for more than 20 years. That’s a long time, all right. I’ve never told anyone about my struggle with my writing goal before. Not even my psychiatrist. My one life goal is to write a novel in English. I even have commissioned a cover for it. But I have been afraid. For all this time, I have been afraid to start.

Today, I told my friends about it, and they all supported me. They encouraged me to do what I have dreamed of doing my whole life. It has been more than ten years since I thought about this for the first time. Ten years. Can you believe that? I am finally going to do something meaningful to me.

Today, I am grateful to my friends. I am grateful for the life I have that allows me to follow my dream.