Writing Down the Bones Deck #21

Hi guys,

I have been trying to write more now that the kids are back into school. I love these cards and I am so thankful for Denise for showing us all these beautiful writing prompt cards.

Full disclosure: I have not read Natalie Goldberg's book titled by the same name YET although I do now own it. I'm excited to read it but, again, I have been putting things on the "TO DO LIST" shelf lately..... whoops.

Let's just get right into things. Without further ado, enjoy my attempt at easing my writer's block with prompt twenty-one.

21) Write "No thank you" and keep going. Every time you are stuck, repeat those three words and continue.

No thank you. I will not apologize for being myself. Every time the words "I'm sorry" slip out of my throat, I want to choke. I don't want to apologize for existing- for merely being human. No thank you.

I am currently unavailable for things that make me feel like shit and I won't apologize for it any longer. I am putting on some big girl panties and doing life my way for once in my life.

No thank you. I don't want to be around people that make me feel like I have to be a version of myself that I'm not. No more walking around on eggshells, tiptoeing around the people that were supposed to love me for me.

No thank you, I will not be tolerating the silent treatment from now on. I deserve better than that. I deserve people in my life that get me and want to be around me. I want to be around the people celebrating each other's wins, not the ones gossiping about someone else's losses. I hate small town mentality for that very reason.

No thank you for your advice, I am my own person and I am quite capable of deciding for myself what I'm supposed to do with my life. After all it is my life and not yours. I am proud of how far I have come in such a short little while. The woman I was would cry if she seen me today. The girl I was would be in awe of me. I will forever be proud of myself because I am something to be proud of. So take your opinion and go.

No thank you. I'm just good, I don't need to prove anything to anyone I'm just me. I deserve to find happiness, in whatever shape it comes to me. I've earned it by this point in my life. I have realized that life is just too damn short to be anything but happy. I my only be twenty-seven years old but I feel like I am thirty-nine years old with the life that I have lived.

But that's okay too. I'm a human who's growing and changing. Like the stages of a butterfly.... Let me be wrapped in my cocoon for a while till I have wings to fly.

Chloe Rose Violet 🌹

Check out the rest of the series down below!

Part One: Writing Down The Bones Deck

Part Two: Writing Down The Bones Deck #2

Part Three: Writing Down The Bones Deck #3

Part Four: Writing Down The Bones Deck #4

Part Five: Writing Down The Bones Deck #5

Part Six: Writing Down The Bones Deck #6

Part Seven: Writing Down The Bones Deck #7

Part Eight: Writing Down The Bones Deck #8

Part Nine: Writing Down The Bones Deck #9

Part Ten: Writing Down The Bones Deck #10

Part Eleven: Writing Down The Bones Deck #11

Part Twelve: Writing Down The Bones Deck #12

Part Thirteen: Writing Down The Bones Deck #13

Part Fourteen: Writing Down The Bones Deck #14

Part Fifteen: Writing Down The Bones Deck #15

Part Sixteen: Writing Down The Bones Deck #16

Part Seventeen: Writing Down The Bones Deck #17

Part Eighteen: Writing Down The Bones Deck #18

Part Nineteen: Writing Down The Bones Deck #19

Part Twenty: Writing Down The Bones Deck #20