achievement

A month ago I had eight ongoing streaks with 30 days or more. Then I failed at one. I could have given up, or keep going with the remaining seven. But that's not what I did.

To begin with, I restarted the failed streak. It was just one skipped day. No reason to stop doing it. In addition to that I started another one.

During the first three years after birth, our brains develop the most enabling us to kickstart kickstart our lives. We go from requiring constant care to being somewhat self sufficient. We learn to move, communicate, feed ourselves and recognize things around us. The most vital skills. And then we spend the rest of our lives just refining those skills.

I was about to write of another milestone in my writing career. But then I realized I already passed it a couple of days ago. So I'm writing this now, two days late.

Last night, we were driving back home in silence with my son. We were coming back from the latest Magic the Gathering set prerelease tournament. The first one we have ever won after all these years we have been participating in those.

As of today I have been writing in an unbreakable streak of 999 days. Tomorrow would turn into a whole new level breaking the four-digit barrier.

It goes without saying that I never thought I would make this far. But now, when I'm finally here, I'm not sure I want to break that barrier.

While keeping up the streak is good incentive to keep going, some days it might also feel a liability. I just have to write even if I don't feel like it just for the sake of not breaking he streak.

Yes, I'm still only 10% on my way to use that properly. But while the 200wad community just passed ten thousand posts I too passed another hallmark yesterday when I posted my 900th post.

The much-anticipated thousandth post starts to be quite near. And soon after that the three-year streak will follow.

I think I have been writing long enough that I have already written a numerous amount of these achievement posts as well that I don't really know what to write anymore in these. At some point I considered to stop writing about them exactly for that reason.