Day 1,680: Don’t Give Up. Ever.

I’m listening to music tonight that I put into a playlist at the beginning of the year, a really rough part of the year for me. I had failed. I’d set many goals, many deadlines for my writing, and I was missing them all. It was a horrible, vicious cycle of failure and it was crushing my spirit. I wouldn’t quite say that I was losing hope, but I was definitely feeling like I wasn’t equipped with the tools to figure out a solution.

I remember feeling so frustrated. It wasn’t that long ago, just...