Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
In a classic body swap scenario, you wake up as a famous philosopher, about to give a grand speech on the meaning of life to thousands of people.
What will you tell them?
Writings
Marshmallows And Stuff
I wake to twinkling sunlight illuminating my room.
I sit up and stretch my arms, yawning and rubbing my eyes as I come to…. In a bed that’s not my own.
Whipping my head side to side, I’m now wide awake and confused as hell. I yank my legs out from under the covers and my heart almost stops. Those legs shouldn’t be attatched to me. I search the room and find a full length mirror hanging on the ...
A Well-Trained Aspirator
In the nearest term, each of your - really our- greatest needs of action and reflection are different. Through each journey of discovery, there lies times, one, when it is vital to open your horizons to see what the world has to offer and how your perceptions could all be shattered; and, two, when you must defend your ability to to be willfully blind to ulterior paradigms with clenched knuckles th...
The Meaning of Life
What I would tell the people is that life has so many different meanings. It is meant to be lived to the fullest. It is also meant to be enjoyed. Every people are outside or in doing amazing things. I used to spend almost every day inside. Wether the sun was shining or the rain was falling. But when I met my boyfriend my feelings of how I spend my days changed. Three years into our relationship I ...
Be You
… "As I woke up this morning, the weirdest realization came to my mind - I was convinced I was someone else. Which might as well be true for so many of us in this room.
We are walking through our lives, with every single event making it their mission to shaken our beliefs of what is real and what is reflective of our inner selves. Regardless of what clothes, cologne or faces we wear, I hope that ...
The Meaning Of Life
Every day is a miracle. When you wake up in the morning, when you open your eyes and you’re healthy, you have so much to be thankful for. You get the opportunity to live this day and to decide what to do with it. And that choice is part of the meaning of life. You have been given this limited time on earth to have a human experience and to make a difference. What would you like to experience in yo...
Survival
UNPREDICTABLE.
Everybody thinks they have it figured out, “Oh me no Im going to finish high school and go to college I’m gonna go to king get a great job and never look back I’m gonna have an amazing family.”
If only we knew, If only we knew that a human could mess up this much in these categories....
The Meaning Of Life Is Not To Be Happy
Happiness.
That’s what everyone wants in this life. Happiness. So that must be the meaning of life. To be happy.
I believe this is wrong. We are not all “trying to be happy”. We are all trying to feel something. Feeling every range of emotion during our life is what the purpose is.
We are meant to feel sorrow and misery. But that is because we are able to feel joy and love. We can’t have one...
Balance
“Damnit!” I wake up and jump out of bed. I’m late, AGAIN. I’m definitely going to get fired this time.
My feet hit the ground. Hmmmm, I must have left my clothes on the floor last night. I scampered over to the wall to flick on the switch in my tiny little studio apartment. What usually takes 5 tiny steps is taking an eternity. My outstretched hand keeps feeling for the wall in the darkness.
Fi...
The Meaning Of Life
Well, to be honest, I don’t think I know a thing about life. Life doesn’t know much about me either.
I’m still trying to figure out how to live and what it all is even about.
I don’t think I’m the appropriate person to give advice in this case, but to be fully frank, I don’t really believe anyone is.
Maybe this it’s what it’s all about, the process of trying to figure out what makes your life ...
The Greatest Race.
“Shit, what is happening?”
“Now let’s have Mister Smith come in front and give us his idea of the meaning of life.”
“Who the heck is Mister Smith?”
“Hey, is your turn to speak go.” I guy seated by my side.
“What do mean?” I asked confused.
I was in my bed… why am I here? What is happening?
“C’mon Sir, we’re waiting for you!”
“Shit, shit, shit,” I said as I stood.
“Round of applause f...