JOELLE’S TALES: FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH #TMAT120 #WRITING #PROMPT FOR FEBRUARY 2019
PLEASE participate
It’s not like I’m asking a scientist to believe in miracles.
TELL ME A TALE IN (EXACTLY) 120 WORDS
Welcome to FEBRUARY 7!
Today’s prompt is: What is the one thing in life you want to finish before you die?
So that you don’t feel so alone in your embarrassment, I’ll share a vignette with you:
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One week, I’m 112 pounds; the next, I’m 106 and surviving on Ensure.
Just another sign that I’m not immortal.
Part of me says, “Your stomach’s rebelling against too many culinary assaults.”
Another part of me replies, “You’ll die, never knowing how your series ended.”
Science, looking for answers in numbers, creates formulas to explain our world. Religion, looking for signs in the heavens, searches for answers in prayer.
Once, both wondered how bumblebees could fly.
What scientist in the 1800’s would consider that an airbus weighing 1.2 million pounds carrying 1800 passengers and 4700 pieces of luggage could not only get off the ground but fly across the Atlantic in 10 hours?
Which ending will arrive first:
- Book?
- Life?
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 1st Thursday of the next month.
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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 goes:
I’ve always been worried that I’ll be reading a really good book and pop my clogs before I’ve finished it. It makes me wonder if I’d roam the afterlife in search of someone reading the same story, will them to go back a couple of chapters for me to recap and then haunt them until they turn the last page.
Then it would be a question of did I enjoy it, or was I terribly disappointed. Some of the stuff I’ve read in the past has been so predictable I’ve had to finish it quickly just to prove myself right (or wrong) as to the outcome.
I suppose this is one of the reasons I’ve never read War and Peace.
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You did a great job in 120 words.
I’d imagine that being in the middle of a great TV series and meeting your demise would be as unsatisfying. 🙂
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In the 60s, we followed the original The Fugitive series, and were away on holdai for the final episode! I’ve never seen it!!!!
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Oh no! I bet you could look it up on the internet and find it somewhere. It was our favorite series, too, and I remember that episode well.
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Don’t tell me!!!!!!! LOL
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Sometimes it costs money to see it, but a few dollars is worth the satisfaction. 🙂
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Even the most free forward thinking scientist in 1800 could not envision the world today; so learning from the past, I would say scientists all today probably haven’t got a clue!
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I have to agree. Many are so smug. It would be funny to watch as they have their cat-like moment; you know the one I’m talking about. The cat runs into the wall, bounces off, and immediately starts licking his paw as if to say, “I planned that.”
Unfortunately, when you have a paper hanging on your wall that screams, “I’m smarter than you,” that attitude is destined to hurt good people.
I still remember Richard C. Hoagland being laughed at for saying there was water on the moon and mars. Then, when it was discovered, science acted as if they’d always known and I don’t remember a single one giving him credit.
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Very nice! I encourage others to see your response.
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“Do you want us to do everything we can to keep you alive – including CPR?” asked the EMT as I was placed on the stretcher. I didn’t need to think it over! “Yes,” was my quick reply.
What do I want to finish before I die? I want to finish living. I want to be ready to quit “doing” and be satisfied with “being” because I can’t take what I do, I will take what I am. I want to catch the bright future that is before me. I want to “be raised in an incorruptible body” and find the adventures that await those in Jesus Christ.
One other thing. I want to leave my albums and picture all organized! 😀
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I love your take on the prompt.
You want your photo albums in order. My mom did just that and I am so grateful for her efforts. I want my books published before I die, too. 🙂
The problem is that there’s a point of no return, usually brought on by advances in medicine. A stroke could keep you in a shell your brain can’t get out of — a prison without the ability to communicate. A person dying of cancer and in agony should have have the choice to go with grace instead.
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I didn’t have time to consider pros and cons. 😀 I had an aortic dissection and acute heart attack about 5:00 in the evening and did not get hospital help until 11:30. The EMTs and whoever was on a Flight for Life was the help I had during those 6 hours or so. I am so thankful they did not write this 79 year old woman off as too late to help. I agree about extreme life support measures. When that time comes, I would choose to go home. Hospice has been very helpful to some people I love. Thanks, floridaborne.
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You’ve certainly been through the mill. A person can’t go through something like that and not feel that God isn’t through with them yet. 🙂
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