What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
Hope and a journal with a really nice pen.
Tag: dailyprompt
Prompt Answer: Bringing Peace
What brings you peace?
I often find myself trying to avoid the chaos inside my mind. For a mental illness that is supposed “all in my head” or some such utter nonsense that is meant to diminish what I deal with on a regular basis, it sure is pretty potent. In any case, I often have to find external focus points for my brain to reach even a modicum of quiet. Whether it’s dishes or cooking, crocheting or sweeping , or even just playing Tetris, I have to have something for my hands to do.
Prompt Answer: Random Act of Kindness
Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone.
I don’t quite know how to phrase this particular response without sounding self-aggrandizing or prideful.
I am kind because the world is not. I am patient with most people because others are not. I am helpful, compassionate, and empathetic because the world is filled with cruelty.
The only way to make it better is with little acts of kindness.
Prompt Answer: An AU of My Life
Describe your life in an alternate universe.
In an alternate universe, I am gone.
I am naught but a bit of leftover ash and bone in a pretty little jar on a mantle of a strange kitchen fireplace in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
What once was my body rattles on the mantle as my nieces thunder by on the tile floors. As children are wont to do, those delightful little girls, right now just five and six years old, run like a heard of elephants through the house. As often as they can, they are shrieking in glee and doing most things at maximum volume.
Since human cremains are so high in salt, phosphate, and calcium, while also having a high pH, maybe I’ve been diluted and mixed into the enriched soil beneath the blueberry bushes I convinced my brother to purchase that one trip to Home Depot we took years ago.
In any case, I have shuffled off this mortal coil in this other world. Maybe I have been reborn as a chubby and beloved kitten or a feisty little foal with mischief in my heart. I am gone, but not forgotten. Dead, but not lost to memory, yet.
In another universe, I am but ash in a jar on the mantle of a fireplace.
Prompt Answer: Future Travel Plans
What are your future travel plans?
Well, they have changed since last I answered this question. Now that I’m living in Wisconsin, travelling to Illinois to see the mess of siblings and other assorted, vaguely related people that I hold dear is in the list.
Mitsuwa Market in Arlington Heights, Illinois and Chicago’s Chinatown are also on the travel list.
I’d love to finally be able to coordinate that trip with Reffie, maybe eventually visit Uncle Gator and family after they get settled in their new place. Oh! And go to Salem, Massachusetts! Not during October, because fuck that many people around. But maybe late fall/early spring?
I’d love to go to the ridiculous and apparently delicious all-you-can-eat themed dinner theater thing called Sneaky Pete’s Wild West Dinner Show. It has been added to the household bucket list.
I also would love to get out of the USA at some point soon. Probably not to leave-leave? Hit definitely get somewhere a little less hellscape.
Prompt Answer: Typical?
Was today typical?
Was today typical? Decidedly not.
Our main printer broke and our secondary one kept jamming. It was a rough two and a half to three hours of stress and hurry up just to wait some more. I usually love my desk, because it’s a standing desk that I have a tall chair for in case I need to sit. But today I was up and down trying to help them get either printer working before the repair technician showed up.
I was already struggling with my pain levels before I did the deck chair Hokey Pokey. Now, my pain levels are through the fucking roof. I threw up both breakfast and lunch today. I legitimately thought I was going to pass out at one point, because I had to take a bunch of deep breaths. I just sat the fuck down in the middle of the hallway near the bathrooms because I was just… out of it. My ears were ringing, my vision went spotty, and I thought I was going to throw up again. It wasn’t a headaches my butt would have gone to the ER. But it was like my usual full ache was dialed up to eleven.
Between this fibromyalgia flare up, the left hip bursitis, my white blood cell count being up to 10.4 K/ul (down from 12.67 in February where fuck if anyone knew why it was that high), my PCOS giving me double trouble for the last three months in a row, and my anemia kicking my ass it’s a wonder I can get out of bed.
I’m so tired of being in pain. I’m so weary. Hopefully my new treatment team will be of better help to me than my previous one.
Goodness knows I have a better, if still small, support system right now.
Take your meds, folks.
Prompt Answer: Bothersome and Why
What bothers you and why?
I am bothered by the basic lack of compassion, kindness, and understanding in those that claim to be followers of Christ.
Why? Because they claim he died for their sins, but are unrepentant in acts of horrific cruelty to their fellow man.
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” ~ Matthew 22:37-40
Both to yourself and to others: be kind, be patient, and have compassion for those who struggle.
Now, I may be a Jewish-born pagan, but Jesus was a Jew, too. I strive to live a good life, regardless of my pantheon. I wish to leave behind a legacy of kindness, compassion, and a little bit of laughter.
Prompt Answer: Better with Age
What do you think gets better with age?
Do you know what genuinely gets better with age? Adventure. Big ones to other countries or other states! Little ones to the grocery store with a dear one!
Find joy in the little things, friends.
And take your meds, folks.
Prompt Answer: Excited for the Future
What are you most excited about for the future?
I have hope. Family I am supported by. Friends I can count on to let me lean on them in times of need and know that I can reciprocate.
I am excited for growth, change, and laughter.
Prompt Answer: Favorite Thing About Myself
What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
I am fairly certain I have already answered this, but I’m going to update, change, or otherwise amend my response. My favorite thing about myself is my ability to change and remain kind. Compassion and adaptability.
Prompt Answer: Good Life
What are the most important things needed to live a good life?
I know that I answered this prompt previously, but I’m going to update my answer.
The most important things needed to live a good life are the following seven, in my opinion:
- Compassion, both self-focused and externally focused
- Your own space
- A decent social support system
- A place you can feel peace
- Therapy
- The ability to laugh
- Kindness, both self-directed and externally directed
Prompt Answer: Tagline
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?
I previously answered that my tagline would be “yarn-addled”. Right now, however, I think it would be “remarkably resilient, possibly unfortunately so”.
Prompt Answer: Luxury I Can’t Live Without
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
Does WiFi count as a luxury these days if one needs it to work?
