Day 1 - Write an account of how you spend an average day in the life. Start with the moment you wake up. in NoJoMo 2024

You know that scene from Will and Grace where Grace reminisces about when Will came out to her, a moment that changed their friendship completely? she admits that while everything turned out fine, part of her still waits for him to drop another life-changing secret and rock her world again.

Covid flipped a switch inside me, life revealed surprises and secrets that I never thought would I ever, ever come face to face with.

That flip turned my personality inside out. I detest the loudness of the world; I like my fortress of solitude.

I sat like a retired content king at the edge of my kingdom watching the world go through so much turmoil during and after covid.
Perhaps quarantine was the best thing that has happened in a very long time.

But that itch and scratch is back and its unnerving.

I feel like life is hiding a secret and it’s irrationally driving me crazy.

What’s next? What’s out there? How much do I want to step out of my comfort zone?
Did I leave the world behind or did the world simply moved on while I reveled in my loneliness, unbothered, happy.

Every day I wake up in rebuke, a revolt against my own comfort, yet I refuse to acknowledge how quickly the world adapted the work-life balance norms that was absolutely alien concepts only a few years back.

I want something to rattle me, not break me, just rattle me out of rusting my self into a slumber that I lose another decade just wondering “what if…”