A Poetry Collection: On Giving Up, Death, Asking for Help and Shower Thoughts.
KTHT weekly writing prompts!
Tuesday: Write about a time you reluctantly had to give up something but in hindsight, it was the right thing to give it up
Giving up.
told over and over again that family and connection is more important than all
to bear the weight to bear the burden to bear the pain in silence.
to acknowledge that these words were said in kindness by people who were fortunate and meant no harm
but to acknowledge that harm was still done in holding to a belief that did not apply
and to let go that there is only one way to live in the world one way to have connection, family one way to exist and be happy.
Wednesday: Tell me about what death means to you. Simply the end, reincarnation, or is there an after-life? What scares you about death? Is it leaving people behind? Not accomplishing what you wanted or simply not knowing what is next?
Count.
inspired by finishing The Good Place recently!
celestial accountants mark the gateway to the afterlife summing up with intricate accuracy the good deeds and the bad
imagine if that were true, in this rendition of the afterlife, would you be in The Good Place? The Bad Place? Or the Medium Place?
For me the word, the feeling that comes to mind is acceptance to accept that even if I fall into the Bad Place or the Medium Place or even the Good Place I simply did my best, and that is … the best I can do regardless of another’s metric even if that metric is held by some Godly accountant.
My biggest fear of death is not of leaving someone behind nor of leaving a legacy, but it is that there is an afterlife that is eternal regardless of whether it is good or bad.
Eternal consciousness seems the harshest punishment of them all.
Thursday: How easy or hard do you find asking for help when you need it?
Levelling up
easy mode asking for help for directions on the street to pass the salt to press the button for the bus stop — these come naturally, almost automatically that people don’t consider them as asking for help.
medium mode asking for reference letters, getting help with experiments, these are yet harder to ask for, but with practice and exposure, became easier, as more people said yes than I’d expected, and even when they said no I survived.
difficult mode depending on others to show up when they were asked to or as they’d promised to I find myself asking, yes, a new skill forward, but not believing, always planning for potential disaster for when someone unreliably breaks a promise.
what mode would you like to play? perhaps over time I have levelled up in asking for things increasingly difficult and in growth I’ve seen that I’m able to make that request. What’s left is to believe in humanity and trust that others deliver without continually expecting the worst and planning ahead for these scenarios.
Friday: Write a poem using these words as a reference — wash away your burdens.
Wash away your burdens
do you ever step into a small space draw the curtains and instantly be hit with a different mindset, a vastly more active mind dancing across so many new and exciting thoughts that you think this is going to change my life
but as you leave this sacred place the thoughts extract themselves and remain, clung to the humidity as you re-cloak yourself with the expectations of the world.
if only I can enter that state of flow that washes away my burdens and shifts me from reacting to fear to curiosity about the world in the form of what if we knew about this? what if we mixed chocolate and mayo? what if… I made my own pizza?
perhaps this is why my showers are so long.
Lucy (The Eggcademic) [she/her] wants to thank 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊. once again for some super thought-provoking questions! Check them out here.
🌌🐰 Hop down the rabbit hole with these two pieces from me and Alice Toneatto
