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It’s important to me that you know that there is a plan here.
There wasn’t. There was just an impulse.
But now I’ve got a plan.
Sort of.
I know the first 2 phases and have an idea about the next 2. And that is plenty. It might not sound a lot as far as plans in general go. But as far as my own planning capacity, that’s not bad.
So. Want to hear the plan ?
Its like this :
Phase 1 : Write so much that all the crap that buzzes around in my head gets out and my mind can be at peace. Write every day because it is so much easier and more enjoyable than meditation.
Phase 2 : Be open about the pain and the hard times in my life.
Phase 2 scares me a lot, and I also feel like it is the important part.
You don’t actually read a lot from fathers who have their children taken from them for spite. And the whole tightrope journey of needing to fight hard for your child and trying to not fight against their mother. That’s my big scar. The wound and journey that transformed me the most in my adult life.
And I have been scared to write about it. But, it’s funny, because when I started writing this article I was just going to say that Phase 2 is going to be to write about that .. it was not…
