I have a writing buddy
who sends me
a message
every week
telling me
I can’t succeed as a writer
without Facebook.
Facebook still has
my accounts in perma-review.
I email them.
I tweet at them.
They don’t respond.
I don’t know
what else I can do.
So these weekly messages
do nothing
except stress me out.
(I AM selling books
without Facebook
but not nearly
as many books
as I sold last year
with Facebook.)
If she wasn’t a friend,
if she didn’t sincerely
care about me,
if she didn’t help me
in many other ways,
I would block
her doomsayer a$$.
But she is all of these
so I put her emails
in a file.
When I feel strong enough,
confident enough
about myself,
about my writing business,
I respond to her.
You WILL have doomsayers.
The gloom and doom
is often about them,
not about you and your ventures.
But it CAN wear on you.
Manage it.
Don’t allow it
to manage you.
And don’t allow
the doom
to stop you.
Change the world
in your unique way.