PROMPT: Lesson

Daily writing prompt
Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

Few things in life matter as much as they feel they do. Almost nothing is perilous, while many things feel as though they are. Don’t let illusory feelings keep one from living boldly.

Or, as the Epicureans liked to say, “What is painful is easy to endure.”

PROMPT: Foods

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What are your favorite types of foods?

Those that are authentic to wherever I am at the moment. [Nothing fancy, but with nutritional value.]

PROMPT: Walk or Run

How often do you walk or run?

Daily. I don’t live in an aquarium (thus allowing swimming as the predominant mode of transport,) nor am I a potted plant that stays where I’m set. Also, flying is out of the question, except in an airplane.

PROMPT: Favorite Word

What’s your favorite word?

“Sword” is “words” with a simple swap where the word leapfrogs its ass, and yet they are unrhymable with each other. That’s a word with some sort of voodoo magic.

PROMPT: This Evening

What are you doing this evening?

Who can know such things? I’m not a fortuneteller. But as I just came off a travel cycle, a betting person would put his money on something sleep related.

PROMPT: Personality Trait

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What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?

Dogmatic thinking and the humor blindspots that correspond.

PROMPT: Ideal Week

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Describe your ideal week.

My ideal week would consist of seven days, each day of about twenty-four hours. You could fit four of them in a month with room to spare.

PROMPT: Athletes

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Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why.

Muay Thai fighters. To survive careers spanning of hundreds of fights, taking knees and elbows, is a feat. While they might not be fighting as often these days, you still probably have to go through a period of a fight per week to raise up to the point where you can have a more sensible rest-to-fight ratio.

PROMPT: Relax

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How do you relax?

Tai Chi, Chai Tea, the usual suspects.