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The Next Thirty Days...Day 29 (So far....so good)

Wow!!. Day 29. That is something great. It has been a great journey so far. Not quite in terms of writing though. For it was good and it was bad. It came out good at time and not so good at other times. But then that's life, right? You don't always get it right. Neither should you. Somewhere, somehow (I don't mean it intentionally) you have to be wrong too. For otherwise you will never realize the importance or experience the joy of being right.

Though I always knew I would come this far..for I wanted too....it has not been an easy journey. It's difficult to come up with thoughts that help you write day after day. At times the thoughts are very much there, full of life but the words just don't justify them or find it challenging to make sense. Though it has been 29 days so far....on quite a few occasions I literally struggled to write. Started to write and then stopped, deleted everything and started afresh. Only to realize that what I started with and what came out was different. The only good point is that on such occasions I decided to tread the path further rather than just giving it up. Giving up would have been a easier option. Nothing too loose. After all other than my friend  I don't have many followers nor there have been many readers about whom I can boast of that it would have made a difference. 

But to me it did make a difference. It is not for them that I have been writing but for the fact and only objective that I have reached so far. It was more about keeping the commitment made myself. It was more of wanting to do something new for the next thirty days. It was more of being passionate about doing what you are doing. And I am glad about. 

So far....so good. But the last mile remains. For there are many who give up precisely when they have only the last mile to go. Nevertheless I am confident of achieving the last mile tomorrow but also confident of doing so in my life.

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