OK so here's my background story. I’m a professional with the kind of job that expects me to be serious person, even though I have never felt all that serious myself. Therefore I constantly crave an outlet where I can just be. So, this series will be written under a pseudonym and while many stories will be derived from my personal experiences, names and places will be changed to protect me and other innocents.
I’m a mother of two kids, a boy and a girl of late elementary school age, and I am a wife. I have a lot on my plate and a lot of stressors in my life; like most of you, I assume. I find myself full of anxiety much of the time in a way that manifested itself much more strongly after having kids. I am a one-track mind kind of person, and before kids I could manage my stress with my professional life well enough by focusing on work and self care, solely and in turn. Now with work plus kids and that biological thing that happens to a mother’s brain that’s supposed keep her vigilant against the bears that might attack attack the children... it's like fire alarms going off all the time in my head.
So that’s the problem I’ve needed to solve, still need to solve. This constant state of overstimulation and being overwhelmed. Like, I love my children and husband more than anything in this world, but damn I need to chill the fuck out!
One thing I noticed is that I’m more sensitive to the stress induced even by entertainment. For example, watching a good show on Netflix as the tension builds towards the plot twist I feel visceral anxiety in my body and sometimes it’s OK because I love a good story and a good plot twist, but there are days that stress is just not what I need in my leisure time. I feel myself during those stories anxiously straining and hoping to rewrite the script in my mind so we get the peaceful outcome and don’t have to suffer through the drama. But, that doesn’t make good TV.
So, here’s my concept. Maybe, just maybe, there’s enough stressed-out people yearning for a good predictable story they can just chill out too. I’m going to share with you the the daydreams that pop into my mind. My stories will follow interesting people with pretty mellow hopes and dreams, and you will find that things are pretty much going to work out for them. These will not be action-packed cliff hangers. Netflix isn’t gonna be calling me for the scripts.
But, if you need some gentle content to relax and unwind, stick around!
Thanks, I'm glad you are here!
I have had enough of the darkness in the world as well, from the incessant (yet nonexistent) "culture wars" to the ubiquitous bad writing we see in modern entertainment. So Hallmark Christmas movies have become my not-so-guilty guilty pleasure. I'm looking forward to reading your reflections.