Day 217: Trading Productivity for Contentment

If life were a miserable, lonely experience all the way through, few of us would make the effort to fight our way through it. On the other hand, if all we experienced were happy times we would never learn the value of the hardships we do endure. My blog sprang from an angsty and discontented place, but also a desire to do better and to be better. When in fact I succeed at finding a bit of contentment, my ability to write productively seems to dry up. So consider this to be it for today's blog. My lesson today is that even happiness has a price and for me, that price is my passion. I love to write, but I do not get motivation or drive from joy.