PROMPT: Alternative Career Paths

Posted on October 24, 2024 by B Gourley

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?

1.) Teaching English as a Second / Other / Foreign Language

2.) Grand Emperor of the Spiral Arm

PROMPT: Proud

Posted on October 20, 2024 by B Gourley

What are you most proud of in your life?

Keeping going.

But if pride goeth before the fall…

PROMPT: Procrastination

Posted on October 12, 2024 by B Gourley

What have you been putting off doing? Why?

Answering this prompt, apparently. It’s been around several times now – I think.

Why? No good answer came to mind, before now.

PROMPT: Hardest

Posted on October 8, 2024 by B Gourley

Daily writing prompt

What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself?

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To be an ever-better version of myself. It is relentless, requires engaging fears and weaknesses, and it is worth it.

PROMPT: Grown Up

Posted on October 7, 2024 by B Gourley

Daily writing prompt

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?

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In retrospect, I’d say it was when I was on an airplane headed to Basic Military Training. I left a few days after completing high school classes, and a week or so before our graduation ceremony. That would definitely have been the point at which I had to realize whatever transpired, I was on my own. My problems were no longer distributed between myself and parents or myself and teachers, but it was all on me.

That said, I suspect that as a teenager I would have reported moments long before then, like my first solo out-of-state road-trip. I think a general feature of the adolescent condition is feeling grown up before one actually is in any real sense.