-Baz Luhrmann
I am not very good at competition. I'd walk a mile around the other way to avoid confrontation. So when I looked at the tallies of everyone on my NaNoWriMo buddy list today, and found myself squarely in the middle of the pack, I felt a moment of despair and avoidance sweep over me.
But this isn't a competition. NaNoWriMo is not about who can get the most words, or get there the fastest. It's about challenging yourself with a goal - one that thousands of people share for themselves as well.
That's what I love about it, and about this group of people who have let me be their buddy. I'm cheering them on (Way to go Nicole, Cheri and LT!! over the 5,000 mark!) and I know they're rooting for me as well. There are people I haven't even met who are arranging write-ins and get togethers to encourage other people they've never met either. We all have a common goal, and though we have to achieve it separately, we're all wanting to help urge others forward with us. How awesome is that?!!
There are few other places on the face of the world I've felt this kind of comraderie, and one is within the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We all have the common goal of getting to Heaven, and though we have to achieve it separately, don't we all feel the need to help urge others to reach their goal of paradise as well?
If only everything in life could be such a vast network of cooperation and support! Can you just imagine what the world would be like then?
3 Comments:
Good luck, Wendy! You're in good company.
This is just why I think that writers are the best sort of people. The nicest bunch of people I've ever met.
Congratulations, Wendy! You're doing spendidly (and if it makes you feel better, I totally had this same moment earlier and had to remind myself that the only wordcount that matters is my own against the lack of my own.)
Keep at it! I'm proud of you!
The world would then be a might fine place.
You're doing awesome Wendy!
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