I’m not going to mince words. This week in my life was so horrific that I’m wondering if the week was cursed.
In a nutshell: I had a car accident (which I caused by way of a costly error in judgment); my 89-year-old father fell in the hallway of my parents’ apartment building and skinned his knee (not the first time he has fallen); my husband fainted at the breakfast table one morning and landed hard on the wooden floor of the dining room; and my family let me know that, due to COVID-19, they do not feel safe having my husband and me over during my birthday and the holidays, which means we have no one to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with. Neither do they.
You would think that all of this would distract me to the point where I cannot work on my editing, and that I cannot work on the nice big project that was handed to me at the beginning of last week and is due November 9. You are wrong.
I have found that this project, which is very tedious but necessary, is a welcome distraction from all that’s been going on in my life lately. Throwing myself into it helps me forget my problems by focusing on the task.
I am so grateful to have this current project. Sure, I am looking forward to the day I finish it, but in the meantime, bring it on.
How about you, fellow editors? Are your big projects a welcome distraction from your problems, or do you find that you cannot concentrate when life hurts?