No Limits But the Sky

So, today is my birthday, and I had the work project from hell. Okay, so it wasn't actually from hell--though there were a lot of 6's and 9's involved, often in repetition. It wasn't that bad, but imagine spending four and a half hours typing phone numbers. Yeah, like I said--blegh.

I didn't get any writing done today for that reason (oh well). I don't feel too bad about it though--I expected this to be a sort of wasted day. I got a cake and a card signed by my co-workers: I didn't know I had that many co-workers. haha.

So I got home and Mike (my roommate) had left my birthday present in my personal bubble, you know, in front of the computer. It's this adorable little inspirational book called 'No Limits But the Sky'. I saw it and laughed a little, thinking 'well, this is just the perfect present to get in the middle of nanowrimo, isn't it?' It's one of those books you never read from cover to cover, but you rest in a place that you see every day, but that's out of the way, and right when you're feeling frazzled, like everything is just a little impossible, you pick it up, open to a random page, read a passage or two, and everything seems more manageable. A silly thing really, but one that everyone should own.

For those of you nano-ers who may be reading this and feeling pretty frazzled yourselves, I thought I'd share a random excerpt:

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

~Booker T. Washington~


That's just the essence of Nanowrimo right there, isn't it? It's the essence of a lot of things, I suppose, but I rather find it appropriate for the mid-month nano blues that so many people are suffering from now. Everyone, chin up! You can do it! Nothing is stopping you but yourself.

No Limits But the Sky.