Deep Dive Prompt: Could You Please Define…- Subhi

Several weeks ago, I started to post every now and then a prompt called “ Deep Dive” to create bridges with other fellow writers, open discussions, exchange experiences, and a safe place to safely share writings, minutes, and parts of the heart.

Here are my own answers to the prompt I posted yesterday:

1. What does happiness mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

Happiness for me is a state of immersion in love where the heart is basically a safe city with unbreakable fortifications where invasions of concerns, worries, and troubles are unthinkable. Those times of happiness do not happen all the time, but when they do, you need to be there fully with your body, heart, and soul because only happiness and thinking about happy moments ( even when you are not) let you continue the daily struggles that life brings. In the sea of life, we are boats that move with the breeze of happiness over the waves of hope to discover the unknown.

The old article below highlights those thoughts better

2. What does love mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

Love is a divine quality that tries to fit into a human heart. We are without love, like Robinson Crusoe on his remote tropical island. Love is the ship that appears to save us and take us on a new trajectory in life.

3. What does writing mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

Writing is a way to put the noise of the mind and the beats of the heart on paper. It is an alchemy to convert feelings into letters, words, and sentences and release them into time and space until someone reads them, and the alchemy happens again, but this time from words into feelings. Writing is the only process where alchemy happens twice.

4. What does beauty mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

Beauty is a melting pot where all the senses and forms lose their identity and presence. Imagine yourself walking in a green forest and hearing the sounds of water and birds while seeing thousands of colors. You will be in a state of ecstasy. This is how I see beauty.

5. What does “ impossible” mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

Impossible is the summit of the mountain that could be reached with patience and perseverance. I am doing now what seemed “ impossible” in our childhood times. Writing words while being in NL and receiving comments from “down under “ or the US instantly.

6. What does success mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

Success is like a luxurious milk chocolate that you adore. The only problem is the price. You need to make an extensive effort to buy it. The more you eat…the more you want..

7. What does “ victory ” mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

When I was a kid, I read about the knights who besieged cities and castles until they surrendered. The moment of victory is when they used to enter those cities. It is a mixture of beauty, success, and pride. Enjoying a victory is like suffering a failure; it should be temporary.

8. What does “perfect day” mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

A perfect day is a day when I can have all those I love in one room. I am waiting for this day to come, knowing that:

“The most beautiful sea hasn’t been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn’t grown up yet. Our most beautiful days we haven’t seen yet. And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you I haven’t said yet…”

9. What does “ failure ” mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

Failure is part of life, so we need to accept it. Although failure should be treated like an unpleasant guest that needs to leave soon, not someone who might apply for permanent residence in our hearts and minds.

10. What does “life ” mean to you? Please define it in a word, line, picture, or story.

In a previous article, I tried to define life…

How to participate

1. Copy and paste this list of questions into an article entitled something starts with Deep Dive into …..
2. Answer all the questions. If you struggle to find only one answer, don’t worry, you can add more.
3. Please tag me — Subhi Najar, the @ symbol then “my name”
4. Publish your article.
5. If you are curious about the answers of a fellow writer who is not on the list, then please tag them.
6. If you found this article by chance and would like to answer the question, please feel free to do so.

I am so grateful to all those who consider joining the prompt and those who read, interact with me, or provide me with any feedback

If you are interested in joining such “deep dives,” please add a comment, and I am more than happy to add you.

Here is the first prompt we had:

Here is the second prompt:

Here is the third Prompt

Deep DivesHighlights Articles

There will be a highlights article soon about the third prompt (writing on Medium). I postponed writing it as quite a lot of you (thanks) joined.

Below you can find the highlights article about Writing!

Subhi Najar is an Alchemist of words, Little Prince, Public Speaker, storyteller, content Creator, and war survivor.

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