Fight your demons 👹🍣🎎 My Japan

The weekend is over and I can now devote myself fully to the new week. Actually, it should be the other way around, but lately everything is not quite as it should be. I ended up placing last week entirely as another experience, with not much difference between the weekday and the weekend. Both ended up being very challenging, which I don't want to repeat anytime soon. As it seems, these days I'm not really blessed with patience and confidence, which clearly effects the people around me as well.

I'm not sure who influenced whom first, but within the family, not everything runs so harmoniously, and there have been quite some tension from time to time. In the end, it was probably most important to accept that the other person is just a human being as well, who has to struggle with his own feelings, and that we are clearly in the same team. And that at the end of the day we try to overcome our own fears and reach out our hand and open our arms. A warm hug has never hurt, and I'm more than happy to join in.

So now we are putting October behind us, although It didn't end up quite the way I had intended. But this year so many things come differently than planned, and at least that seems to have become a fixed constant. Even if you can't quite build on that, you're at least warned that it's likely to end up looking quite different than you initially imagined.

I'm curious to see what happens next in November. I should probably hold back, and just wait and check what the new month has to offer. A little more coolness could certainly not hurt, although I'm not quite famous for that. I'm actually just hoping that we can finally all get out of the house and into nature together. The temperatures are still quite mild, which of course will change soon as well. And finally it looks like it might not rain and storm on the weekend. That would be something that I would be more than just happy about and which should help to improve my rather poor mood. After the last few weeks, I like to clutch at every little straw and just try to keep looking forward. In the end, I have no other choice anyway, and every new day at least holds out the hope of improvement. And if I can get another hug at the end of each day, the prospects for the future are actually quite bright. So that is what I will be working on for now...