Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 308 – Positivity

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“Keep looking up. That’s the secret of life.”

Charlie Brown

Thanks, Spidey. Think I’m getting a crick in my neck from all the looking up, but I do try and stay positive!

There is far too much around us, right now, that can bring us down. Even the most bubbly of person finds themselves feeling flat, more often than usual.

Ask me, I’m one of those bubbles…

I’ve never experienced this amount of low phases in such a short space of time. You probably wouldn’t know it from my blog, because I try to be that voice of positivity at all times, but behind the encouragement sometimes sits a person feeling like she is just about surviving.

I should count myself lucky, really.

I have so much to be grateful for: a wonderful family, my true love as my soulmate, both sets of my parents are healthy and have had or are getting their vaccines, a roof over my head, a secure (stressful) job, a car, friends I can rely on, a little money in the bank, food in the cupboards, that sort of thing.

But sometimes, this situation drags me down. It feels as if it will never end.

  • When will I see the rest of my family?
  • When can I hug?
  • How long before I get to be with my Finndian family?
  • When will we get back to normality in school?
  • Will we sell our house, ever?

Then I do that Charlie Brown thing, and look up, metaphorically. I try and find the silver linings, and sure enough, they do appear.

We’re all sitting under a huge cloud, right now, so it’s even more important, right now, to be looking up, to glance the breaks in that cloud, and feel the sunbeams of positivity on our faces, whenever we can.

So, make sure you keep looking up, Peeps!

So… tell me, how are you coping, now it’s reaching nearly a year since life as we knew it ceased?

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Have a peaceful Sunday Peeps.   

#SoCS Jan. 30th – The Beginning/The End

Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week…

Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “the beginning, the end.” Write about the beginning of something and the end of  something. Bonus points if your first sentence contains “the end” and your last sentence contains “the beginning.” <– Read that again. Have fun!

At the end of the day, it all comes down to common sense, doesn’t it?

There are so many decisions that politicians have taken for us, over the last year, and they have, for the most part, shown us just how inept they are at thinking of logical solutions, which require common sense.

There’s a virus, get people to wear masks. Oh, no, that isn’t very effective… roll on a few months. Everyone wear masks, unless you are at home, or outside… or in school, because school is a magical safe place where no one gets ill. Um, maybe we should get older kids to wear masks, actually… oh, and maybe adults, in communal areas.

U turn!

Another one.

We’ll just make people stay at home for a while, when they come back from holiday. And create ‘travel corridors’ with other ‘safe’ countries. Oops… seems peopel are bringing the virus, and it’s bigger cousins, back with them. Let’s shut a few corridors down, then reopen them after a while. Months, and months,, later. Um, maybe we should stop all travel…

Common sense, I told you!

There are so many areas of the handling of this pandemic, that could have possibly been better, if there was just a little common sense used, right at the beginning, don’t you think?

Guarded #writephoto

Sue’s #WritePhoto prompt for this week:

Fearful
Terrified
I can't get out

Concerned
Worried
Can't see a way out

Guarded
Hesitant
Unable to reach out

Hopeful
Hesitant
I might just see a way out

Positive
Confident
I will get out

Ritu 2021

Special Collection Flash Fiction Challenge

Charli Mills has a special Flash Fiction prompt, this week, that introduces a month of differences in February. A flash fiction challenge, honouring our very special blogging friend, Sue Vincent, in advance of a competition, which will be supporting Sue.

January 28, 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about life as a river of consciousness. Think about the possibilities of the prompt. Go where the prompt leads!

 
The Life River 

 Life is a river 
 Of consciousness
 Each of us a drop
 Merging together
 To become one
  
 When we clash
 Life flows
 Unevenly
 Turbulent currents
 Water gushing
 Fiercely
 Banging and crashing 
 Against the banks
  
 When we live 
 Harmoniously
 Gentle ripples
 Dapple the surface
 Creating
 The illusion
 Of peace
  
 Together we flow
 Side by side
 Whether we like it
 Or not
  
 Life is a river
 Of consciousness
 Echoing the
 Ebbs and flows
 Of life
 River beds
 Dry up
 River banks
 Burst
  
 But, in the end
 The river
 Continues to flow
  
 Like life
  
 Ups and downs
 Ebbs and flows
 Life goes on 

Ritu 2021

#TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 210 #SYNONYMSONLY #Senryu Past & Present

Colleen’s Syllabic Poetry challenge: Use synonyms of the prompt words in any of the syllabic poetry forms.

Past & Present

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Start the day today
Not thinking of yesterday
But of the future

Ritu 2021

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