#50: Deep dive into your emotions
Writing prompts to examine your life from different angles
The poem that resonated the most with readers this week was the one I wrote about humility:
I used to look down on this concept as it’s been used on me to ask me to be smaller, take up less space. I’m reclaiming this term to mean taking up the space that I deserve to, while holding space that others exist and can have wildly different perspectives I’ve yet to understand.
And maybe that’s why I also ask questions & create writing prompts. I’m inviting others to do a deep dive into concepts that they might have thought were cemented, asking them to see things from a new angle.
So, are you ready for this week’s prompts? Ready to try and see the world with a different lens?
Les tire d’érables
sur la neige — un doux souvenir
d’un voyage d’enfance.
It makes such a difference
to have your self-care mug filled
enough to be able to respond
from a place of intention
instead of a knee-jerk reaction;
It’s important to feel your feelings,
a lesson I had to learn
as I stuffed my scheduled
with work, work, work and more work
until I had no time or energy left
to think about the things that happened to me
that day,
life
is not a fairytale,
no guaranteed villains
and magical fairy godmothers,
or perhaps
you are the villain
in your story —
Many like to ask
how do you write so often?
Many of my friends,
bearing the weight of their
childhood (emotional) wounds,
aware of their personalities
have chosen not to have children
simply because it does not tickle their fancy
to do so,
and
we live in a space where this is
increasingly less stigmatized to choose this,
for which I am grateful.
May I have
the humility
to learn to do better
when presented
with the information
that what I’ve been doing
is not enough,
or worse,
has been harmful.
I can’t wait to read everyone’s pieces, so feel free to tweet it to me or tag me on Instagram!
Until next week,
Lucy 🍳
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