Relentless

As I’ve always and often said, Clarity is key.

The Clarity I have now is relentless. I can’t stop smiling. I’m giddy. I’m full of energy I shouldn’t possess by all rational and reasonable accounts.

Making a dream come true will do that for you.

Sure, I know there’s plenty of heavy lifting left to do. It needs to be revised and edited. Support materials need to be created for it. And there’s a long road ahead of me that offers no promise of triumph.

Even in the face of that knowledge, I still feel like I’m invincible. This moment, completing this story with these characters that have been in my head in various forms since I was a kid… is really the completion of a dream. A lifelong goal. It isn’t the story I’m Certain I Have to Tell, that’s BP #1 and that’s on my mental shelf at the moment. It isn’t even my own story. That’s for another day. It’s the beginning of a much longer tale that I hope to be able to tell to whomever will listen. Sure, there’s the potential for financial gain here, but that’s not why I did it. I’ll happily take it if anyone wants to offer it, (no, really. offer me money) though it isn’t the real joy here.

I made a dream happen. I made one of my own dreams happen.

And that makes me Mighty.

It reaffirms the knowledge that I will write my own legend.

Most importantly, it reminds me that for those select few things and people that speak to me greater than 99% of the rest of my life and the rest of the world does – just as writing and storytelling does now as it did when I was 8 and made this choice – I will never, ever give up. I may not get the best outcome, or even the outcome I want. Tomorrow is promised to no one.  Until my tomorrows end, I will not stop. No dream will be abandoned without exhausting all blood and breath.

I will be Relentless.