The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Day 25!

Also, nice job remaking the challenge! Although i would rather have the lenght to be 500 days, it is still a very nice challenge.

 

Day 9

Today was a pretty good day. Helped out at a church event today. It was good to hang out with other people doing some gardening and contributing to the local community.

When I came out of the event, for the first time in a long time I wasn’t looking at people like I need something from them. I just felt happy in myself. It was quite liberating. The thought of PMO didn’t have any pull over me because it felt so good to just want to give to other people and learn from them and treat them as human beings. Think that’s what the gardening event did for me, it was good to work with Muslims and Christians and young and old people and just feel happy to be together, eating lunch and working together.

I want to do more things that make me feel this way. I’m looking forward to becoming a teacher, as that will be a very rewarding job.

 

Day 190

Went to another wedding today, lovely catching up with family and the food was absolutely spectacular. On the other hand I ended up quite emotional on the drive home; I was overwhelmed with sadness and feelings of being alone, I have great friends and family but still can’t shake the feeling.

 

day 3

 

30 days – Your loved ones send you a gift as a token of their love. Radagast, the Brown, in his rabbit sleigh delivers you Evenstar – a silver necklace with a white stone. "When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you...this will bring you aid".
Quest Item – Evenstar

One month free!!!

Spent most of the day resting, went to visit another city.

 

2 days

Thank you @RiseToGreatness for these changes! I think you greatly improved this challenge. It's now much more down to earth and much more beginner friendly.

I must say however that I think this 90-day-hardmode is a bit too much for me. Even 30 days would be too much for me. But I would have to go for 90 since I'm not married to my girlfriend yet.

I don't consider sex before marriage problematic in any way. I'm not Christian and I hope this is not a Christian challenge now?

I'm trying to deepen the relationship with my girlfriend (which I will propose to this year) and one way to do this is by having sex. Our sex life is very bad due to my years of P addiction. I know that some of you might say that the best thing I could do to improve it would be 90 days abstinence, but this is not the only way.

I haven't told my girlfriend about my addiction so she may wonder why I won't sleep with her for three months.

I'm part of the fellowship for many years now with lot's of breaks. I can't just leave now...

 

Thank you @RiseToGreatness

This is kind of a bittersweet moment for me. I’ve been a part of this challenge for over a year and a half now. During that time, I’ve reached hobbit status 4 times and once I was even a day or two away from being an elf.

Right now, I’m on day one, doing the right things and improving myself, but somehow I just don’t feel worthy of being a hobbit. It’s funny, I know it’s a “fake title” but for so long my goal was to become a hobbit that I feel like I’m cheating myself by leveling up now.
the change to the challenge looks great, and I’ll talk to my wife about doing a 30-day hard mood, but I wish to remain the last orc in the world, just this once, I want to earn the level that I’ve dreamed on for so long. I’m totally fine skipping from hobbit to dwarf (I was always on their side in the elves-dwarves fight).

So far today I’ve done some meditation and went to study at a coffee shop so I wouldn’t be tempted while being alone at home. so I'm happy

 

Cheer up and think about the successes of your life,your goals and your hopes. This will surely help you to get out of feeling sad and lonely.

 

Dawn of the 113th day.

Thank you sir! I'm thinking a big part of growth for me is to bring thoughts like that to the fellowship instead of keeping them bottled inside. Overcoming isolation. Lessening the distance I put between myself and others.

@RiseToGreatness

Those bonus goals after the main challenge are a great touch.

Do you have a copy of of the old challenge? I'd like to carry on with the legacy path (and label it as such). If I do happen to fall I'll start fresh with the new challenge.

 

Relapsed back to day 0

 

Day 74.

NO ONE SAID IT’D BE EASY
“Good people will do what they find honorable to do, even if it requires hard work; they’ll do it
even if it causes them injury; they’ll do it even if it will bring danger. Again, they won’t do what
they find base, even if it brings wealth, pleasure, or power. Nothing will deter them from what
is honorable, and nothing will lure them into what is base.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 76.18
f doing good was easy, everyone would do it. (And if doing bad wasn’t tempting or attractive, nobody
would do it.) The same goes for your duty. If anyone could do it, it would have been assigned to
someone else. But instead it was assigned to you.
Thankfully, you’re not like everyone. You’re not afraid of doing what is hard. You can resist
superficially attractive rewards. Can’t you?

 

Thank you rise for the changes, I think it looks more "accomplishable" for most of the brothers that join us. And that might be a good help for them.

But personally I want to keep going on with the old challenge if you don't mind. I don't feel that I destroyed the ring at all... And probably all the brothers with 180+ days feel the same. My mind is already set to destroy it at 500

Also I want to give you my opinion, I don't think it's really Christian to make "Eru" the final goal. I would make the valar the final one, we are not God, we are below him, always. Even if we are Saints (and we'd know this even more if we really were Saints).
Making Eru the final goal makes me feel this challenge more like the dragon ball challenge or something like that. Tolkien's universe goes hand in hand with reality and being Eru would be too unreal for me lol.

 

Check in day 285

 

Check in day 286

 

220

 

day 2

I was not able to check in last night as by the time I got back home, the internet connection on my computer has been shut off by my router, a designed behavior.

 

Having a great weekend, just relaxing. Beautiful weather, think I will go for a walk. "the road goes ever on and on..."

 

That's a good idea bro.
Day 73 . Good luck all!