Tag: dailyprompt

Is it worth being Passionate?

What are you passionate about?

I only ask, as being passionate in anything sometimes makes people question if you are just being obsessive in your actions.

There’s obsession in relationships that can more often than not be one sided, and lead to a number of unwanted and uncomfortable situations and poor behavioural traits such as stalking.

There is passion in your work, that can also lead to you being seen as a person who doesn’t see black and white, there’s no other option it’s your way or no way!

Passion seems to partner obsession in my opinion, maybe I’m looking to deep and need to step off the gas a little.

What am I passionate (obsessed) with then?

I’m passionate about time keeping, and competence. I simply hate incompetence in anything and it is one of my pet peeves.

I guess I’ve woken up in probably not one of the best frames of mind to answer this question. I’m passionate about a good nights sleep though, but that’s about as rare as rocking horse s**t these days.

Keep obsessing all…

The four seasons

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

And I’m not talking Frankie Valli and his pals, neither am I about to burst into song, you don’t deserve that.

Every season has its good and bad points for me, but I have to say Spring is probably my favourite.

My reasoning for each season is listed below:

  • Spring: crisp mornings but now is the added bonus of the sun poking its head out, the plants are starting to awaken and the birds seem to be singing a different song. It’s all about awakening and looking forward. This is my favourite season, as it’s all about progression, it seems positive to me.
  • Summer: Sun, heat all the things we haven’t had and have missed for the last five months should now be here in abundance, however here in the Uk in the middle of what should be flaming June, we have single figure temperatures and even more rain than usual. Mother natures clock seems to be out of sync.
  • Autumn: Nature is about to go into hibernation, the trees put on awesome displays of colour and the last sprinkling of warm sunshine takes a bow. Cold days reappear and Jack Frost starts to make his presence felt.
  • Winter: warm coats come out of storage, the common cold hits with a vengeance and crisp mornings and more rain appears. And then the slight dusty sprinkling of snow appears that makes the country grind to a halt, and makes us the laughing stock of the world.

Oh how I love our four seasons.

Take care people..

The ability to breathe

What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

A bit of overthinking and triteness here but I can happily live without luxuries of the consumer kind.

Breathing you will say is not a luxury, it’s as natural as night follows day. But when the ability to do it properly is removed, it becomes a luxury.

Asthma inhalers (Internet)

As a kid I struggled with endless breathing issues and chest infections. Bronchitis has featured heavily in my life along with Asthma and they still haunt me to this very day. In fact over recent months I’ve noticed a quite dramatic decline in my ability to control the condition, as well as other unknown symptoms creeping in. But I’ll hopefully get that looked at when I have my yearly asthma review on Tuesday.

There is nothing quite like being able to get your lungs full of fresh air and not be constantly fighting to catch your breath. But that hasn’t happened for a long time and I miss that.

I’ve never smoked but my parents were chain smokers so I guess I was a passive smoker from an early age. I personally hold them both to blame for what I have suffered over the years, and that is why i hate smoking with a passion. I had to watch my brother die from Lung cancer and that wasn’t pretty, it was horrendous. He was a smoker.

So for me breathing is a luxury that I can’t live without, yes I know you are saying that’s the same for us all – you fool! And you’d be right of course. But for me it is the quality of good unhindered breathing I miss, and that’s a luxury I’m probably never going to experience again.

Don’t poison yourself people, your body doesn’t require it, and you will definitely regret it in later life.

Enjoy that deep satisfying breath of fresh air. It really is an indication that life is good for you if you can.

Here endeth today’s lesson.

Taglines…how tedious

If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

For me it would be:

He came, he saw, he just couldn’t be arsed.

Have a great day folks.

Living the good life or your “Best life”

What are the most important things needed to live a good life?

In my honest opinion this is truly an individual choice. However I can only speak for myself when I answer this question.

Enjoy the journey (internet)

What is the good life? Do we refer back to the old tv sitcom of the 70s with Richard Briers and Penelope Keith, when the good life was living off the land and being totally self dependent? Or is it something else?

In modern society I suspect it is something else, even though many would long to have a similar simple existence as the “Goodes” did back then.

Realistically, that life is not attainable by all so we have to resort to what we individually class as the good life. To have a good life and what I personally would class as the good life, there are a few aspects of our own demeanours that we have to make changes to.

Now I don’t have what I’d call the good life, I have a pretty good life and I’m happy with that. I’d imagine the Good life in truth contains a number, if not all of the following, that we strive to achieve on a daily basis but may not be fully versed in just yet:

  • Financial security
  • Job security
  • A steady relationship
  • A loving family
  • The freedom to travel
  • A good attitude
  • Humility
  • Kindness
  • Compassion
  • Understanding

We are all probably able to say we are fully conversant in a number of these aspects, however we are more than likely striving to attain these goals rather than exercising them on a daily basis. Just looking at these myself I can see where I fall down, and what I need to do to attain a fully “Good life” but a number of factors will probably step in and stop me ever achieving that.

So I guess I’ll just have to be content with achieving my “Best life” and be satisfied with that. And you know what? I’m content with that choice, as I’m sure many others will similarly be.

Enjoy your days, stay safe.

Thoughts 7/6/24

Who do you spend the most time with?

I spend most of the time with my work colleagues to be honest. Well. Truthfully it’s probably even Steven’s between them and my wife and dog, though it does sometimes feel that I’m more at work than home.

As I can’t show any work pictures on here, please enjoy this delectable little YouTube short of my dog wishing you a happy day.

Our Alf wishing you a happy day

Enjoy.

Thoughts 6/6/24

If you had to change your name, what would your new name be?

It’s hot

It would be…….Betty Swallocks

Use your imagination guys 😂

Have a super day.

Thoughts 5/6/24

Describe your dream chocolate bar.

Lindt shop Wembley

Never ending, Fruit and nut with a caramel centre, coconut sprinkles and made from Lindt chocolate.

Handsome.

It would certainly keep the cardiac department in “fruitful” employment 🤦‍♂️

A good day to you all.

Thoughts 4/6/24

Do you remember your favorite book from childhood?

See this is what I’m getting at, the prompt from yesterday was not much different from this one for today. The guy that does the prompts at WordPress must be getting right bored.

Cockleshell heroes

Anyway, just as well I read a lot as a youngster. One of my favourite books I read as a youngster was the Cockleshell Heroes by C.E Lucas Philips. This book was published in 1956 about 9 years before I arrived on the scene.

I was a bi product of that period post wartime when the big rebuild of the country and the economy was starting to kick start. As a kid it was all war films and war comics so it was only natural to read war book’s wasn’t it?

It’s another book that I’ve read more than once and as a youngster it’s sheer excitement and intrigue kept me engrossed from cover to cover.

I hope tomorrow’s prompt is another subject, I quite fancy “What did you eat yesterday?”, for a change. (Only joking 🙃)

Anyway have a darned nice day and enjoy the sun if you are fortunate enough to see it.

Thoughts 3/6/24

List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?

  • Cosmos – Carl Sagan
  • Cider with Rosie – Laurie Lee
  • The bitter lemons of Cyprus – Lawrence Durrell

I was a kid of the sixties, one of Apollos children as I lived through those heady days of the space race. Carl Sagan was one of those superb teachers that could bring a highly complex scientific process down to a level every one could understand and there haven’t been that many people who have followed him who can do the same. I have read the book and watched the series many times, I’m sure I will do the same soon.

I love Laurie Lees ability to be able to teleport you into his life as a child growing up in the country. I first read this book at school and then read it again about 30 years later. The things you notice in this book as an adult against what you read as a child shows how much our knowledge and attention grows as you mature. It’s a go to holiday read for me as it’s one of those comfortable books. His other books about the Spanish civil war are also very well written and insightful.

I love Cyprus and everything about it. This book by Lawrence Durrell gives a fascinating insight into the old ways of the island pre-invasion, as he travels around documenting the many people and ways of the island. I must have read this book a good six times now and I never tire of it. I suspect number seven will be coming up very soon.

You can’t beat a relationship with a good book.

Have a peaceful day everyone.