CREATIVE CHALLENGE | WRITING PROMPT
If I Were a Verb, I Would be…
Responding to a challenge by Desiree Driesenaar
My friend Desiree says, Let’s All Be a Verb.
She quotes Buckminster Fuller.
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.
She challenges us to look at ourselves and define who we are in terms of a verb — as a function of the universe.
If I were a verb, what would I be?
What function do I serve in the infinite and eternal universe?
FLOW, of course.
Dictionary.com gives twelve distinct meanings for the verb FLOW. That testifies to the richness of the word itself. I like that.
I chose the following three meanings that describe my function in the universe the best.
- To circulate.
- to proceed continuously and smoothly.
- To abound in something.
One of my favorite affirmations is:
“Ever-increasing sums of money circulates in my life with joy and ease.”
I am all about abundance in motion. I like to receive it, and I like to share it.
Recently, I have started playing with words as I used to as a child, to describe them — thanks to Tim Maudlin and Henery X (long) — as acronyms. You take a word and spell it out vertically, then take each letter and form a word starting with them. In other words, you create an acronym.
Here is an acronym for FLOW.
Flood
A flood is an overflow, an abundance of flow. I am known for my outrageous and ridiculously large goals. Like Walking Route 66, and a plan for climbing Mt. Everest on my 75th birthday.
Love
Love is the interconnecting function of the universe. It is the glue that holds the universe together. It is the flow of energy that binds everything. To love is to attract, to pull, to set flow in motion.
Own
To own is to possess, to take control, to take responsibility. I am a unique expression of the universe and as such, I influence the universe. My existence is a requirement in the universe's flow. I am an integral part of it.
Wonder
To wonder is to be curious, to ask what if? Curiosity is the seed of creation, of expansion, of increased flow. It is the seed of evolution. The universe is continuously evolving into a better, grander version of itself.
To sum it up.
When you flood everything with your love — the binding energy — to own and take responsibility for what is and what can be, with wonder and curiosity, you create a FLOW resulting in a more magnificent universe where everything expands into abundance.
What verb will you use to describe yourself, Sharon Hurley Hall, Bob Jasper, Michele Thill, Tim Maudlin, Catherine Pugh, Esq., Rosennab, P.G. Barnett, Timothy Key, Henery X (long), Sherry McGuinn or anyone who is facing a writer’s block?
As always, thank you for reading and responding.
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