JOELLE’S TALES: FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH #TMAT120 #WRITING #PROMPT FOR JANUARY 2018
NOTE: The rules have changed.
TELL ME A TALE IN 120 WORDS
Welcome to January 4
Today’s prompt is: A new year’s resolution you’ve never been able to keep.
So that you don’t feel so alone in your embarrassment, I’ll share a vignette with you:
Long, long ago in decades far, far, away, I’ve made New Year’s resolutions to lose weight and to give more to charity. Those, I’ve kept.
Every time I’ve made New Year’s resolutions to think before I speak, those fail every time. It just seems that my mouth goes into overdrive and my brain can’t seem to understand how to stop it from racing into the nearest set of pylons.
Writing helps smooth it over a bit. I can go back and edit, move a thought from one place to another and, after using a text reader to see how it sounds, send it out with the assurance that I might have been a bit rash, but I said it well.
Here are the rules:
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A prompt for #TMAT120 will be given the first Thursday of every month. The prompt challenge begins whenever it’s that day in your time zone. It ends on the 2nd Thursday of the month.
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NEW RULE: Copy and paste your 120 word entry into the reply section below, along with a link to your blog. To me, everyone who enters is a winner, but if you must have a winner, the entry with the most likes wins.
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Limit your #TMAT120 post to 120 words. People who participate in limited-word prompts aren’t expecting a 1,000 word explanation before it begins.
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When/if you publish your entry on your blog, use the #TMAT120 picture to show that you are participating in the prompt. Please don’t alter (except for size).
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Please don’t use hard-core curse words. They’ll be edited out if you do, and you might not like the words I choose to replace them with. 🙂
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Take time to read other people’s #TMAT120 & their posts, after all you might make a new friend.
© Joelle LeGendre Joelle’s tales: Tell me a tale in 120 words
Here we go Joelle.
Not being one for resolutions either past or present, the usual lose weight or give up smoking are probably the two most attempted ‘failures’.
In the end, quitting smoking turned out to be simple, and didn’t need the ringing in of the new year to succeed, just a marriage licence in 1991!
I’ve made promises to myself not to bite my nails, but since meeting Hubby, that hasn’t been an issue either.
Normally an easy going person, it takes a fair bit for me to lose it, so anger management is sort of half and half.
I’m going to go with Mug though.
I try my best not to let people take advantage of me, but hey, I’m a nice gal!
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Excellent! Sometimes just the right person comes along and all those things you never thought you’d be able to do become easy. Bravo!
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I am indeed blessed that we found each other.
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Happy New Year Joelle
I stopped making resolutions after making one to be a better husband only to discover my wife didn’t make any reciprocal one.
The result was making an obvious effort and my wife using that effort and her knowledge of my resolution to criticise my every move.
It was a pointless exercise and led me to believe resolutions were a useless exercise when they could so easily be broken.
I found it troubling when I reslised I was no longer complying with the resolution plus there was a period of guilt when I understood the futility of my actions.
Since that day I determined it was far more constructive for me to resolve to be as good as I could be.
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That sounds eerily familiar and I agree completely that resolving to be as good as you can be is a better way to go. That way when someone is taking advantage of your good nature, you can resolve to be the one who helps them see when they’re not being the best they can be. 🙂
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Yes good point. Have a good one.
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