Friend #1 from some early entries recently started a non-anonymous blog, which inspired me to go back and read my blog.
And, apropos of my friend's blog, it struck me how those six months of active blogging and the several months afterward was all in all, a very high point of my existence. Then, as my blog entries drop off in frequency, my life spirals downward in a corresponding fashion. By March of this year, I was in the midst of perhaps my lowest point.
Was it the Rules that helped me during that six-month period? Or was it the fact that I was observing and recording my experiences, which allowed me to feel them less intensely, or less judgmentally?
I don't know. Probably some of both. So, I'm going to try to another Six Months of Rules.
I'm done applying Sherrie & Ellen's Rules in their stated form, though I might refer to them from time to time. Although I just came up with this idea five seconds ago, the current plan is to use my next six months to articulate my own Rules. And Rulebreaker's Rules won't be solely romance-focused, as I think that is probably the best method of trying to make sure that my life isn't solely romance-focused (something I have trouble with).
So here goes. As the first of Elul bleeds into the first of September and the time of self-reflection in the Jewish calendar fast approaches, I'll begin another six months - this time I make the Rules.
