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My Long Silence

Or why I was not writing for an entire month

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My Long Silence
Gene Wilburn

I believe I have had the most interesting Winter break since I began my education. It is also an Winter Break that I never want to have again. My mom had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer and had to have two surgeries to get cancer out, Christmas is always stressful for me, my phone wasn't working, I was worried about the amount of credits I would need to advance to my next level of College Education, and on top of everything else, I wasn't able to get into my Odyssey account to write. Writing has always been a way of coping with stress for me. Needless to say, I was basically a ticking time bomb being eaten alive by stress and conflicted emotions, but what seemed to be my breaking and turn around point was when I learned why I hadn't been able to get into my CMS account to do any writing for Odyssey.

Here is a little background on how this happened, looking at it now, I find the mistake to be freaking hilarious because I should have seen it coming. My community has two EICs and one of them had made an honest mistake that I totally forgive them for because I would have made it too and accidentally deleted my account, but due to my phone being out of commission and me being unreachable because of it, I had no idea why. I found all this out after getting my phone replaced and It was the dam of all the stress I had put on myself broke into billions of concrete slabs. I was incoherently for around a minute ranting and crying.

I recovered a few seconds later and had my cure for every single problem I have ever had. I went and got a Coke-a-Cola from the case of it I have in my bedroom. After I was able to think clearly, I began to talk with the EIC about what had happened and in the end, which was a few minutes ago actually, I got back in business with my writing.

So, to my readers, to my very few amount of readers, I am sorry I was gone so long, but I'm back now. You are still stuck with me.

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