FINAL HEMLOCK JOURNAL PROMPTS
"There is a time for departure, even when there's no certain place to go."
Tennessee Williams
What is it time to end, lose, or let go of?
How will you spend your time "in the wildnerness" or the "neutral zone" once you have let go?
What is your new beginning going to require of you?
"There is no fruit that is not bitter before it is ripe." Publilius Syrus
Transitions can be frustrating and hard - which part of this ending is bitter to you?
"One must be thrust out of a cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one’s love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion." Anais Nin
Do you feel you are being "thrust out" of a cycle? If so, describe what you are feeling.
Would you prefer to "renew and recreate?" If so, why?
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." Anais Nin
Do you believe that "life is a process of becoming?" If so, in what ways have you become who you are now through previous transition periods?
Have you ever wished that you could "elect a state and remain in it?" If so, why, and how has it affected you?
Why do you think that Anais Nin calls the desire to remain a "kind of death?"
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." Tom Stoppard
What are you exiting?
Where do you hope to enter?
