Last night, right after midnight, when I thought I would be extending my Wordle streak, I found out that I had broken it.
In other words, I thought I had played Wordle yesterday, but I hadn’t. If I had opened up the New York Times app a few minutes before I did, I wouldn’t have broken my streak.
That sent me on streaks of negative thoughts and feelings, surprising in their intensity. I thought about my unbroken and long streaks in daily blogging and tweeting over the years, despite some very challenging and overwhelming days. I felt streaks of regret, disappointment, and self judgment about that unconsciously broken Wordle streak, caused by simple forgetfulness (or perhaps disorientation because of the time change).
Because I wanted to maintain my current short streak of good night’s sleeps, I tried to let go of those streaks of negative thoughts and feelings by searching online for “streaks Wordle.” First I found this …
… which isn’t totally accurate, because you can break your streak simply by not playing the game for one day.
Then, I found an article about people deliberately breaking their Wordle streaks in support of striking New York Times employees, which had this headline:
And the last line of that article helped me maintain my streak of non-sleepless nights.
Now, I need to embrace the chaos of the unknown and maintain my ten-year streak of blogging by sharing these images with you.
It looks like the Daily Bitch has broken a streak, too.
When I search YouTube for “streaks” I find this…
… and this:
Thanks to all who help me maintain my blogging streak, including YOU!
