What are your favorite types of foods?
Vegetables & fruits, also nuts.
PROMPT: Favorite Foods
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PROMPT: Walk or Run
How often do you walk or run?
Every day. And sometimes I crawl, and – if there are monkey bars – I swing.
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PROMPT: Leader
Do you see yourself as a leader?
That’s a strange question, at it seems to be one of the few traits for which one’s self assessment is meaningless. i.e. if one sees oneself as a leader, but no one will follow one… “Teacher” is similar. One may see oneself as a teacher and might even have all manner of certifications and credentials, but if no one wants to learn from one, it’s not clear that it’s a meaningful title.
That said, I don’t see myself as a leader… but I’m even less of a follower.
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PROMPT: Favorite Word
What’s your favorite word?
I like the German word “Schadenfreude,” meaning to take joy in another’s misfortune.
I like the idea that a person can be so in touch with their dark side that they can express that bit of pettiness in a single word. So much of language is obfuscation and deceit. Southerners use four words (i.e. “God bless his soul”) to say a person is an idiot, and – even then – the meaning is masked.
Schadenfreude is authentic, and we need more authenticity in language.
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PROMPT: Traits
What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?
When a “grown man” makes life / wellbeing decisions based on what others will think of him, one of the words in quotation marks is in question. So, I guess… conformity.
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PROMPT: Word
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
THE. Having a definite article contributes to an overly developed sense of specialness and entitlement, bordering on the narcissistic [or should I say, “bordering on A narcissistic” ? ]
Seriously though, I’d like to believe I’ve already jettisoned words with no value-added, or attempt to do so.
Carlin discussed a huge list of euphemisms and weasel words contributing to the weakening of the language, but I try to only use those words to poke fun at the people who use them – e.g. “pre-owned.” Those words function to point out attempts to be manipulative, and so I wouldn’t eliminate them, because that’s an important function.
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PROMPT: Travel (Far from Home)
Daily writing prompt
Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.
That depends on how you define “home.” If by home, one means the place I’ve lived for the past decade [Bangalore, KA, India,] then its antipode is in the eastern Pacific Ocean – off the coast of South America. This would make the farthest I’ve been from home: Lima, Peru. If, however, one means the place I was born and grew up in [i.e. Northwest Indiana in the USA,] its antipode is in the Indian Ocean – west of Australia, and the farthest I’ve been would probably be the southern tip of Bali, Indonesia.
Either way, one could say that I’ve never been far from home (despite having visited 40-some countries over all continents except Australia and Antarctica.)
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PROMPT: Ideal Home
It should be small enough that I won’t acquire new things without asking whether they are necessary, and whether their value exceeds their spatial cost. [And, also, such that it encourages spending time outside.] Besides that, it should be an environment within which one can live healthily.
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PROMPT: Online Search
Daily writing prompt
What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?
I looked up what “Black Acid” is because it was mentioned in a Hunter S. Thompson book I was reading (i.e. “Kingdom of Fear”) and it sounded like a thing one should steer clear of if one doesn’t want to regain consciousness pantless in a ditch with no recollection of the last several hours. Well, you can’t avoid something if you don’t know what it is. Because “Knowledge is Power!”
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PROMPT: Television
“A-Team,” “Knight Rider,” “Taxi,” “The Jeffersons,” “Three’s Company,” etc. With plenty of reruns of “Gilligan’s Island,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” and “I Love Lucy.”
Deep cuts: “The Master” and “Airwolf”
Tiger Riding for Beginners 