Has faith been restored? Not yet. Patiently awaiting that day.
What’s a moment when a stranger completely restored your faith in people?
To be honest, 60 years down the line and I can’t really recall an occasion when this has happened.
Maybe, as age advances, distant memories of such occurrences probably just disappear into the ether.
I await my turn in anticipation.
Have a great day, wherever and whoever you are 👍
One sentence, one special person. You’re already a winner.
If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?
It’s funny that I’m answering this prompt in a present tense, imagining what I’d expect to read as a result of a lifetime of experience and broken expectations.
Taking what I know now into context, the sentence I’d expect to hear is:
“Don’t worry, everything will be alright”
And to be honest, previous experience does lead me to agree somewhat. Going all the way back to my school years (And that was a lifetime ago) we’d worry about exams, back then it was the end of the world, we worried constantly and I even see kids doing the same today, but with the benefit of hindsight I can clearly say, it really doesn’t matter, everything’s ok, it worked out just fine.
If you can step aside from peer pressure, or even better still if your peers can stop applying that pressure in the first place, the world would be a happier place.
Put it like this, the fact you are even here on this planet is a miracle in its self, the chances of your parents even conceiving you are a massive 1 in 400 Trillion.
That makes you a very special person right from the very start.
So don’t fret, you have a right to be here, you have a right of free expression, you have a right to be whatever you wish to be.
You are a winner. “Don’t worry, everything will be alright”
Have a superb day.
If you had to give one life-changing tip, what would it be?
Be nice. Don’t be an Arse.
Have a great day 👍
History shouldn’t be cancelled. It should be used as a tool of learning, and ensuring atrocities are not repeated.
If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be?
Easy. That would be the modern trend of trying to erase history and pretending it never happened. I never thought that in my lifetime I’d ever witness people deliberately burying their heads as depicted by old time cartoons.
But hey brother, that day is already with us, and it is happening.
It’s true that there are horrific, disgusting dehumanising aspects of history that we would have all preferred not to hear of or witness, and humans are responsible for creating all of those words listed above, throughout the timeline of history. Life is about learning, learning of other’s mistakes and wrong doing and making things better, ensuring such atrocities never occur again.
Yes, we learn from history, we can correct what went wrong, ensure that others learn and do the same, pass the learnings on and ensure we are all aware of the difference between right and wrong. Unfortunately there are a few who are a bit behind us at the moment and need to play catch up. There is always that underbelly of society who just don’t get it, their heads are already well and truly buried.
Don’t erase history. It happened, it can’t be hidden and we should all learn from it. Mankind has erred throughout history, we should learn from those mistakes, and ensure it never happens again.
It’s how a civilised society develops. Erasing what has happened in the past is pure ignorance, and is totally irresponsible.
But for some, it’s just easier to bury their heads. Out of sight, out of mind. That attitude will never work, but they will sure give it a go!
Be careful out there, stay safe 👍
A prompt from Wordpress that pretty much answers its own question. If only common sense could be a lesson.
Do you think we’re shaped more by our experiences or by who we are?
Experience defines a person and their relative behaviours and beliefs, so the choices in the prompt above are both closely related.
Who you are, how you appear to others is a result of experiences that have shaped you throughout your life.
You live and learn. That’s how it has always been.
Now, if only common sense could be taught, wouldn’t that be nice?
Have a great weekend all.
I’d want to be an Owl, what a “Hoot” it would be……I’ll get my coat
If you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why?
I’d probably like to be an Owl, just like the big fellah “Elvis” in the picture above. A great grey owl I had the pleasure of meeting a few weeks ago on a falconry day that was purchased for me as a birthday gift.
Sleep all day (that would be nice 👌) awake all night (pretty much standard for me) and exceptionally good hearing (another sense that I am truly blessed with, just as well as everyone else in the family are as deaf as posts 😂)
Silent hunters, lone operators and super senses, they are just a wonderful creation to set your eyes upon.
Who wouldn’t want to be an Owl.
Have a “Hoot” of a day 👍
Sometimes Wordpress drop some really banal prompts to answer. Most I don’t bother with, I think you can see I’m now a tad miffed by it all. Simple answers are all that’s needed. No explanation necessary.
What’s one habit that has improved your life the most?
Easy really and quite simple.
Minding my own business
Stay safe. Don’t be nosey 👍
Try not to get old, or age too quickly
What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?
Don’t get old.
Or at the very least, in your younger years try your best to delay ageing. I wish I’d done that. No turning back now, it’s a regret.
And you become bitter and twisted..
It’s draining, physically and mentally.
Have a good day
Oi you! Yes you! Just mind your own business!
If you could instantly master any skill, what would it be and why?
I think I already posses that skill.
And that skill is:
Just minding my own business.
In life we have control over just two things, our thoughts and our own actions. You can’t control whatever anyone else thinks or does, so why waste your time in trying!
Just mind your own business. That’s work a plenty in many cases.
Have a super day👍
Worry, it’s a draining burden, but is it necessary?
What could you do less of?
Its probably a subject matter that will be picked up on quite a bit i should imagine, purely because of the state of things in this big wide world, and because of the burdens we put upon our selves quite unnecessarily. Now I ain’t any psychologist, and you aren’t going to find a health hack here. Someone has asked the question, and I’m just giving my two penneth worth as they say.
Why do we worry? God knows, we worry about what others think when in all truthfulness they don’t give a rats ass about you, it’s something that has somehow worked its way into your psyche and it’s now programmed to pester you 24hrs a day. Just forget it they say, that’s easier said than done, it’s like a medieval soldier being sent into battle and being told, “Don’t worry about any armour, they just want to talk!” As soon as your defences are down, fight and flight appears on the scene, and that makes things a million times worse.
It’s strange that some of our biggest battles are with our own internal settings, when in our own personal little world there really is nothing to worry about. We worry about things that could happen, when they most probably will not, we worry about others, which is not a bad thing, but we neglect our own well being.
And here I am, fully loaded with all of the above spouting all this bilge out, why? Am I just replying to that prompt issued by WP? Or am I crying out for help? Probably neither to be honest, I’m just letting people know in advance that I’m probably one of life’s inherently natural worriers, and if I ever meet you I’m probably going to worry about your well being as well.
It’s probably why I’m so introverted, there’s a limit to just how much infectious burden you can bear, and to be honest I think my brain has a short circuit in that area.
It would be lovely to off load all that burden, and for once, stand without that emotional globe on my weary shoulders.
Take care, and have a wonderful day, i worry about you.
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