This post is written for the weekend Trifecta Challenge: This weekend we’re asking for exactly 33 words inspired by the following photo. Please remember that if you use the photo on your own blog, you must give proper credit (with clickable links).
Photo credit: Bérenger ZYLA / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND
Life’s mirror reflects the things that I hold close. It may not involve truth, but it involves dreams. My dreams. And it will only make me see the things I want to see.
The Daily Prompt today is this – You wake up tomorrow morning to find all your plans have been cancelled for the next seven days and $10,000 on your dresser. Tell us about your week.
This post would have been completely different had there been an extra zero in the dollar amount left on my dresser. That scenario would have included a well drafted letter to my employer thanking the company for covering my bills for the last ten years. Or perhaps just a postcard from a beach with a few expletives and a hastily drawn cartoon of me in a hammock with a Margarita in my hand. I guess the resignation letter would depend on the amount of tequila I had consumed before the writing process began.
Having only $10,000.00 in cash and a week in which to spend it led me in one direction – my mom. My mother has fallen victim to ill-health over the last few years and is slowly giving away her freedom, piece by piece. She lost the vision in one of her eyes due to nothing more than simply aging and had to give up driving. She sometimes feels like a prisoner in her own home until either my brother or I spring her from her cage for a few precious hours of escape.
She wants nothing more than to travel to Niagara Falls and visit the Butterfly Conservatory and that random pile of unlaundered cash on my dresser is just the thing needed to get her there. Our week would be spent in the best hotel (maybe we’ll get to hook up with The Hook) pampering ourselves as much as possible. We would tour the Conservatory at a leisurely pace, taking in the beauty that metamorphosis created and watching life breathe in three dimensions.
(image courtesy of Google)
So…..if anyone has $10,000.00 to spare, I’ll clear off my dresser and text you the address.
Tenacious is a word that I have come to love. It sums up so much of my personality and my desire to succeed. It gives me an excuse to fall back on when I seem like that proverbial bull in a china shop. But when you know what you want, why should you not use everything in your arsenal to get it?
Words continue to fuel my fire and the roaring blaze is only intensified by my yearning. I want to write. I want more than anything to support my lifestyle by putting my thoughts and images into words, and I want people to get lost in the spectral portraits that I create with language. That tenacity is what keeps me going. My stubborn refusal to accept my current station in life is evident by the passion I seek to create in the many fables I wish to share.
There are many adjectives to choose from when someone asks you to define yourself. Honest, trustworthy and loyal are among the top words that people will use to exemplify the traits they find most honorable in themselves. I embody all of those things, but my tenacity is what sets me apart from those benign words. My ferrous belief that my writing will allow me to have a career by incessantly tapping at this keyboard is the light that beckons me through these dark nights. It dangles that rabbit that I continue to chase in circles around that unending track. It gives me hope that my dreams may come to fruition.
Some say words are only words. But words are unique. Each word that is chosen in a story is selected because of the way it truly reflects the emotion and meaning of the sentence in which it is written. And just perhaps, those words will lead me through the current reality of my days and into a world I had only once dreamed of – a world in which I was not just a fairy tale character, but the writer of that story.
Tenacious = determined, obstinate, persistent. Tenacious is the word that defines me.
If you had to choose only one word to describe yourself, what would it be?
Do you ever take a moment to ask yourself if you are really doing what you want to? Are you living the dream?
Nine to five, Monday through Friday. This is the reality for so many us…..toiling, sweating, dealing with people we would not wish on even the worst of our enemies, and for what? Sure, the steady pay cheque each second Friday is somewhat rewarding and it pays the bills. But are we missing a very important piece of the bigger puzzle?
So often we tread through life in a direction that we never thought we would be heading. Circumstances and obligations seem to navigate our course and we lose sight of the things that are most important – our dreams. Reality has a way of shifting those dreams to the back burner and we are left knowing that what we truly desire simmers on low heat and never gets a chance to reach a full boil.
Please don’t misinterpret my musings and think that I am not appreciative of my job, my co-workers and my current career. That is not the emotion I wish to convey or the drive behind my words. But there is a piece of my puzzle that I have yet to obtain, and a dream unrealized is a dream worth fighting for.
I have many passions. Some stave themselves from parading in the forefront of my reality and some seep into my subconscious to give me subtle reminders that they are awaiting recognition. Some have been recently awakened and welcome you each time you read my thoughts on this blog site. But there are still dreams to be realized.
The cafe awaits…..and as my soups come to a boil on the stove and my cakes are in the bakery counter, I will be the one writing in the corner at the small table with the laptop and the glass of red wine. See you there!
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