Full Stop

When writing, there is often a need to get to a point. If this was life, when would the "point" be? Ambitions achieved, jobs done, people loved, or more bluntly, death.

The sentence can only be read when the full stop lands on the page.

My mood is low. The summer heat is getting to me, but also a personal lack of resolve. My sugar addiction is not serving me anymore, and I find it so hard to put down. Ingrained, conditioned coping strategies are challenging to release.

Seeing the words on the screen slows the rumination. Putting things down is what is done with the pen when the sentence is complete.

Paragraphs, chapters, epochs and volumes become the tome of a life well lived. A full stop may end a sentence, but it signals time to pause, to breathe, to put down what no longer serves.

The metaphor brings the lesson. The lesson, when acted on, brings acceptance.