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This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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Prompt: "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Write about this in your Blog entry today. Patience and time. These things are often in short supply. Since I’ve retired there’s more time, but I still don’t know where the days, weeks, months and years go to. I’m probably the most impatient person I know of. I refuse to queue for anything. If there’s a queue, even at the bakery, I’ll go and do something else and return when the line of more patient people has dispersed. And yet I find myself telling the younger members of the family to just hang in there and wait and see. “This too will change.” This was one of my mum’s favourite saying. “Nothing stays the same.” It’s so true isn’t it? We simply need to have patience and wait for things to change and invariably they do. Time is becoming my enemy now. It’s stealing the years away. I look at my great grandchildren and realise with a pang I won’t be there to see them grow to be…whatever it is they see as their future lives. Perhaps I’ve always been in too much of a hurry. When the babies were small, I wished for the next milestone, and the next, until suddenly they were grown with little ones of their own. I would wish that time would hurry up and arrive for future plans to come to fruition, instead of enjoying the NOW. Because NOW is all we have. |
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Prompt: “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai (1997- ), Pakistani female education activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Let this quote inspire your blog entry today. I agree with the quote and have heard so many stories relating to teachers who’ve made a difference to someone. I’m going to turn that quote on its head. I can’t remember much about my school years. I can’t remember one happy moment and that’s the truth of it. What happened? You may well ask and I can’t tell you because I’ve blocked those years out of my memory. The only thing I do know is I left school as soon as I was allowed to on my fifteenth birthday. I left thinking I was stupid! How terribly sad is that? The only teacher whom I do remember terrorised me. I don’t know if she was a bully to everyone but she probably was. She scared me so much I took no notice of anyone else and was too busy keeping a low profile. This teacher was in my primary school and she set me up for failure. It wasn’t until I began helping my own kids with their homework I realised I wasn’t dumb. Since then I’ve earned degrees in counselling and tourism. My husband and I ran successful businesses and I discovered a love for learning which I never had when I was young. So teachers never underestimate your power. You can use it for promoting a child’s self esteem or for the destruction of it. |
| Prompt: A Whole New World If you were to create a new planet and a whole new world, what would it look like and what kind of people would its inhabitants be? What a wonderful, inspiring idea it would be to start from scratch and begin all over again. Of course there’d be things I’d still keep, no good throwing the baby out with the bath water. So I’d be Mother Nature and all the geographical wonders we have now, such as the mountains, the rivers and oceans would be there but there’d be a New World Order. Population would be controlled. There are nine billion people on the planet now so no more than half that number would probably be optimal. If I could control the climate too I’d ensure that there’d no extremes of weather. I, as Mother Nature would have my temperature controller in my hand to ensure the crops, animals, and humans received just the right amount of sunshine and rain. Laws would be enforced to ensure the rivers and seas remained unpolluted. There would be no sicknesses and there would be no births until someone died, keeping the population under control. No famine and no dictatorships. But the only trouble with this New Earth would be that it was boring! |
Prompt: Rumors and Gossip What do you think of rumor starters and gossipers? Do their rumors and gossip eventually come back to bite them? Did you ever write a story about rumors or gossip? Once upon a time when we lived in villages which were isolated from other villages, when there was no television, mobile phones and internet, the villagers depended on the village gossip to find out all the comings and goings. Nowadays the gossiper is hidden behind a keyboard. There they sit, causing mischief. They can say anything about anyone, true or not, because they can remain anonymous. Keyboard warriors they’re called. Now these anonymous people have become even more dangerous with the advent of artificial intelligence. They can make it seem as if people, usually famous ones, are saying words they didn’t say. The trouble is that no matter how much the maligned victims protest their innocence there are a minority of the population who will still believe the lies as it has always been. I have never written a story about a gossip but it’s certainly an idea for one, so maybe I’ll give it a go one day. |
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