This Week the Trend

I'm instituting a segment.  Blogs should have segments, I think.  This one will run every Sunday, and I'm naming it after one of my favorite songs.  You can even sing it to the same tune and peek into my life besides.  The goal is to name my trends each week so if they're negative they don't become the trends of the whole month and if they're positive they become permanent.  Remember that lyrics tend to be more dramatic than real life.  I have poetic license to overreact when set to music.

This week the trend
Made perfection the priority yet again
I beat myself up for not reaching all the bars I set
And gave up on the rest of them

This week the trend
Wasn't to handle things but rather simply to pretend
Got too lazy to put any of the hard work in
All the while hoping things work out in the end

Had to borrow that last line.  Fit too well, both to the rhyme and to reality, not to use.  The original song is pretty negative, but I promise my weekly trends will sometimes be positive.  I forgot this week that the trends of my life are mostly in my hands.  Don't forget that you write your trends, too.  Other people have influence, but you hold the pen.