The heat must have scrambled my mind but for the life of me, I can’t think of anything that I hated when I was younger and love now. Hmm…..I was an easy kid except for my forays into the forests behind my place. It was a mesmerizing place filled with magic and there I spent a lot of time commuting with nature. It didn’t set too well with mom who wanted to raise a “lady” and not a little rascal!
However, I was easy compared to my brothers and sisters. They had their quirks, their likes and dislikes. One brother loved to cuss which was a no no in my family so there was trouble there. Another hated eating vegetables and yet another just loved having her own way! I, on the other hand, was the who gave no trouble, did what was asked of me, and towed the line.
So no I can’t think of anything that I hated. Hate is a strong word and I don’t think that I really hated anything. I had a great childhood and I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Next question please….
Daily writing prompt
What do you love now, that you hated when you were younger?
I would like to think that a gut feeling and intuition are the same but it seems that there are subtle differences. They are closely related and a “gut feeling is typically an immediate physical and emotional reaction driven by survival instincts and past trauma. Intuition is a calmer more cerebral knowing that subconsciously synthesizes experience to offer wise guidance.” I don’t know guys, it seems like it is the one and the same to me. Basically it is that feeling within that tells you you’re going the wrong way! Quite often we choose to ignore the voice that wants to do right and we walk our own path knowing full well that it is the wrong one.
I’ve done that many times over. I remember a time when my “gut feeling” screamed, “STOP! You’re headed the wrong way, he’s not the right one.” I heard it loud and clear, I saw the signs being paraded in front of me and still I ignored and carried on heading into the danger zone!
However, the journey of self-discovery I am on has taught me to pay heed to those gut feelings and to take them seriously. Not too long ago, I dated someone who seemed to be the perfect guy. Let’s just say, he ticked all the right boxes. It started out like a dream. We connected, we had the same interests, and it felt like HOME! However, my gut was telling me something else. It said, “Watch out! Things are not as they seem.” This time around, I chose to listen and it turned out for the best.
The loser was a cheater just like my ex. He played a good game and it looked like he had done it many times before. The good part, I walked away before more damage could be done. My gut feeling was exactly right and I did right by following its advice.
So the next time your gut tells you something is not right, pay heed. It has your best interests at heart just like intuition does.
Daily writing prompt
What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right?
A balding, white-haired man from Sherman Oaks, California walked into a mall jewelry store on Friday evening, accompanied by a much younger woman. He told the jeweler he was looking for a special ring for his girlfriend. The jeweler showed him a nice ring for $5,000.
“No, I’d like to see something more special,” the man replied.
The jeweler then presented a stunning $40,000 ring. The woman’s eyes sparkled, and she trembled with excitement at the sight.
The old man smiled and stated confidently, “We’ll take it.”
When the jeweler inquired about payment, the man replied, “By check. I realize you’ll want to check on the funds, so I’ll write it now and you can call the bank on Monday. I’ll return to collect the ring.”
On Monday morning, the jeweler furiously called the old man. “You have only $25 in your account!” he shouted.
“I know,” replied the old man with a laugh. “But let me tell you about MY GREAT WEEKEND!”
You must admit the old man knew what he was doing and that blonde didn’t stand a chance! 🤣🤣🤣
I’m not a sci-fi fan and I’m really not into this question. Add the heatwave of the incredible kind to it and I ‘m not thinking straight today. We are melting like ice cubes in the heat and “thinking” is not what I want to do. I would love to get Darth Vader to blast this heatwave to kingdom come!
I do know about Emperor Palpatine or rather Darth Sidious. He is the overarching villain of the Star Wars franchise and Darth Vader was one of his enforcers. That’s about all I know and care about.
Well Darth Vader would make a good Emperor since they are both cut from the same cloth. Who would I nominate?
I DON’T KNOW and I don’t care? They can go play in their sci-fi world for all I care.
I need ICE, a pool, shade, lots of shade,and a fan blowing in my direction!
Next question please…..
Daily writing prompt
Emperor Palpatine has announced open elections for a new Emperor — and he’s nominated Darth Vader. You get to nominate one challenger.
A farmer buys a young rooster and puts him in the yard.
The rooster takes one look around and immediately gets to work. By breakfast, he’s been through every hen on the farm.
The farmer whistles. “Well, that was impressive.”
By lunchtime, the rooster has done the whole flock again.
Now the farmer is less impressed and more concerned.
The next morning, the rooster has moved on from the hens to the ducks, the geese, the turkeys, and anything else unfortunate enough to stand still.
Later that day, the farmer looks across the yard and sees the rooster lying flat on his back, legs in the air, completely motionless. Above him, a few vultures are circling.
The farmer walks over, shakes his head, and says, “I told you you’d kill yourself, you filthy little maniac.”
I believed that under every mushroom and around every tree, there were little people and fairies flying around! I used to talk to them all the time BUT I never saw them.
I know it is ridiculous but my mind was centered in fairyland and I loved it there. I don’t think I ever grew out of it, just put it aside while I pursued my career which had nothing to do with one or the other.
Years later, I would come back to it when I started writing my book. The door flew wide open and I was back there again. I let my imagination run wild and I jumped in with both feet! Only this time around, I was no longer the little girl but a grown-up woman. It didn’t matter, I loved every minute of it.
I guess my answer to your question is that those beliefs are still present today and I DON’T find them ridiculous at all!
Daily writing prompt
What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?
There were other books but this one stood out from the rest to a girl who was running wild at the time and didn’t have a care in the world except to be a young girl and to live life to the fullest.
Then I got into books and this one, well, let’s just say it had me from the get go. I couldn’t put it down and I walked her path, the one she had walked so many years before. I lived her life through her words and I cried at the injustice of it all, and when she lost family members, I wept like it had happened to me. Her father was the only one to survive the Holocaust.
The story was about a 13-year-old Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis for two years during the occupation of the Netherlands. It was also about the resilience of the human spirit but more than that, it was about man’s inhumanity to man. The diary does a perfect job of capturing the constant terror they lived under being concealed in the “Secret Annex” above her father’s business. It must have been claustrophobic not to mention horrific living under the extreme silence that was required of them to keep from being exposed or arrested.
She wanted to be a writer and or a journalist, she would achieve that dream posthumously. Her father Otto Frank published the book in 1947 and it is now an enduring reminder of the resilience of the human nature and the dangers of prejudice.
The book made me see the world in a different light. I realized and saw firsthand from reading the book that evil was out there, it had the power to destroy and it brought home the fact that my little corner of the world was safe while there were others out there that required a certain mentality to survive and where “safety” was far from what it was from where I was.
I think, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” broadened my way of thinking and I started taking an interest in what was happening around the world and would later go on to write about human injustices, racism, and human rights issues.
That book was the stepping stone to a whole new world, not always of the good kind but it was needed and it changed a young girl’s way of thinking for the better.
Daily writing prompt
What’s a piece of media (book, movie, song) that changed how you see the world?
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