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Category Archives: Experience
PROMPT: Habit
Getting up every morning.
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PROMPT: Chaos
A little of every kind of stressor is good for us. A human is a system of antifragile systems. Our bones get denser if we load them. Our muscles get stronger when we cause microtears in them. And our minds can cope with a wider variety of experiences when exposed to a wider variety of experiences.
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PROMPT: Profound Piece of Advice
Daily writing prompt
What’s the most profound piece of advice you’ve been given? Did you take it?
“Shut the hell up!” Sadly, more often than not, no.
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PROMPT: Super Power
Invisibility. I like to see, but not to be seen.
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PROMPT: Quote
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” – Mark Twain
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“What you imagine, you create.” – Siddhartha Guatama Buddha
All restatements of one key principle, that our [mental / emotional] experience of the world is an entirely separate thing from the world itself. The latter one has almost no control over, the former one can reach a state of complete control (granted through painstaking and relentless effort.)
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PROMPT: Weather
For being outside in: Mostly Sunny.
For watching unbridled chaos (from a distance, and preferably on video): tornadoes.
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Illusory [Free Verse]
Nothing is what it seems,
or as it feels it should be.
The world is full of
smoke & mirrors --
neither here nor there...
And yet everywhere...
& everywhen.
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PROMPT: Perspective on Life
Daily writing prompt
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?
Becoming less afraid of death makes one bolder, but being more prone to stay injured for extended periods makes one more cautious. Maybe it all just equals out.
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PROMPT: Time
Do you need time?
I suppose I do. Without it, instead of life being one thing after the other, it would be everything all at once. The latter seems chaotic. But maybe one could get used to being timeless. I have no basis for comparison. I’ve always been just in time. Come to think of it, it would be nice not to have to conjugate verbs.
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