Challenge
Emotion: Nodus Tollens
n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.
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Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin!
On January 28th I'm doing an Emotion: Énouement Challenge
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Nodus Tollens
I keep moving. Running away from it all.
There's no harm in starting again, but how many times can we click re-do?
I'm often overcome by this feeling. The feeling of not being on the right path.
I’ve cut, and been cut from so many lives.
I feel like I have lived a thousand times.
Each one bringing me closer to where I'm supposed to be.
Each one bringing me further out to sea.
I think I've found my life boat this time though.
A light shining in my darkest hour, luminating the path to happiness.
Firm friendships, where I can be me, truly free.
A real love, where I can be honestly me.
Maybe, just maybe, all of it will work out,
and if not, I will have chosen me.
This is my path, my destiny.
What will be, will be.