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I live on a rollercoaster, which never slows

I have two medium friends who keep me in check.

Sara Burdick
3 min readJul 31, 2023
Photo by blueberry Maki on Unsplash

One tells me the ugly, honest, sometimes harsh truth, and the other always inspires me. They both inspire me, really, lighting a fire under my behind. One in you need to hear this, and the other in a much gentler you need to listen to this.

Yet the yellow bits of jealousy always eat me alive. I know, I know, I go back and forth. I go up and down; one day, I feel inspired. The next day, I feel like a pile of jello trying not to melt as I sit in 40-degree weather.

Celsius, not Fahrenheit, since we, in the US, are the only ones who use a different metric for everything. So to say it gently, that is the weather satan enjoys.

Not me; I am not satan, even if some of my ex-boyfriends would put me in that category (oops).

I look again at my stats this month and hope it’s the summer slump; ramp up my writing, think of bigger, better, different, the same ideas, and what works and what doesn’t.

I will be honest I have no freaking clue what works and what doesn’t, except doing. So I do.

I plan to record for my slowly dying youtube channel that I am determined to bring back to life as I gradually give it CPR 3 times a week and pray to the gods to the…

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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