Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “mind.” Use it any way you think to. Have fun!
Don’t mind me she screamed at the truck as it sped past soaking her from head to foot! Why can’t anyone be mindful of her? Let’s face it she has to pay mind to everyone else! Everyone was always telling her, mind your Ps and Qs, take care, mind how you go!
Tired and wet she trudged home only to be reminded with each step how much she minded no one seeming to see her point of view! Here she was wet and cold late at night and all thanks to some nameless mindless driver who paid her no mind as she had stood at the side of the road!
Never mind her mum said as she stood in the hall shivering, go and have a hot bath and I shall make you a hot chocolate . She started up the stairs beginning to feel a little better, thanks mum she called over her shoulder, I have had really bad day! Never mind her mum shouted back .
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Here are the rules:
1. Your post must be stream of consciousness writing, meaning no editing, (typos can be fixed) and minimal planning on what you’re going to write.
2. Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be. One sentence – one thousand words. Fact, fiction, poetry – it doesn’t matter. Just let the words carry you along until you’re ready to stop.
3. There will be a prompt every week. Linda will post the prompt on her blog on Friday, along with a reminder for you to join in. The prompt will be one random thing, but it will not be a subject. For instance, Linda will not say “Write about dogs”; the prompt will be more like, “Make your first sentence a question,” or “Begin with the word ‘The’.”
4. Ping back! It’s important, so that Linda and other people can come and read your post! For example, in your post you can write “This post is part of SoCS:” and then copy and paste the URL found in your address bar at the top of Linda’s post into yours. Your link will show up in Linda’s comments, for everyone to see. The most recent pingbacks will be found at the top.
5. Read at least one other person’s blog who has linked back their post. Even better, read everyone’s! If you’re the first person to link back, you can check back later, or go to the previous week, by following my category, “Stream of Consciousness Saturday,” which you’ll find right below the “Like” button on Linda’s post.
6. Copy and paste the rules (if you’d like to) in your post. The more people who join in, the more new bloggers you’ll meet and the bigger your community will get!
7. Have fun!
Aug 22, 2015 @ 21:42:28
Mum’s are so good at that. Getting drenched by a car has actually happened to me so I had a good laugh at it…I wish there had been someone to offer me a Hot Chocolate afterward too. Sometimes its a tiny gesture or even just a consistency that a loved one offers that can make all the difference huh?
Aug 22, 2015 @ 21:45:07
Yes Hope you are so right, since my mum has been gone and I am the Mum, and now grandmother I often wish I had someone to look after me and make me a cuppa!!
Aug 22, 2015 @ 23:03:43
Cuppa…lol made me think of a dear friend who was Limey…wow I miss her and her damn accent.
Aug 22, 2015 @ 23:58:39
🙂 xxx
Aug 22, 2015 @ 22:38:20
Not sure how this works exactly but I like it a lot. Here goes my mind stream…
Mind is a whimsical sometimes fickle dilly of a pickle.
I do not know from where it comes or where it goes.
I do know that thoughts are frequent sometimes lacking eloquence.
I hope no one else hears them! Oh no, everyone is aware of my mind all the time?? This means I am responsible for my thoughts??
I am worried that I am my thoughts and they must define who I am.
Forgive me for these crazy thoughts that I am.
Ha! I am not my thoughts I am not my mind.
I am beyond them but become them when I grab them and feed them full course meals so that they overeat when I give them dessert.
I am distraught by my mind and reminded of what Muktananda said.
He said that the mind is the greatest friend because it will search and search and search and search, but the only place it will ever find solace is God. In that way Mind is the greatest teacher and I can learn to be grateful.
My mind is quiet because I rest in God-love.
I am content because all these passions and searches and thoughts are passing while love is constant and will always be my true identity. The rest comes and goes. I can enjoy this as well.
Mind your manners.
Mind the gap, is what a Tibetan lama once said. Mind the gap, the space between thoughts… and that’s all he said before entering the gap and filling the room with quiet beauty that flooded the hearts of all who were there.
What are the complexities and mysteries of mind?
What is mind what is yours?
Mind mind mind
Will I ever find the answer
The final truth?
Will there ever be a final outcome
This is what my mind asks
Because it understands beginnings and ends.
Can this mind comprehend eternity?
I do not know but now my mind is searching for an answer and it will surely have one, whether true or not.
That’s what’s great, it is a tool that cares not about truth but to find the information you ask it to find. Thank you mind. I appreciate that I have you and you exist to help me, a spirit of love who uses my mind for a purpose of loving and healing. Prayers come from the mind. I am giving my mind the purpose of prayer!
Thank you for this prompt! And for reading this drawn out process of free flow! I love doing this! Is it my mind that likes it or do I actually love it? I don’t know yet, but an answer is sure to come 🙂
Aug 23, 2015 @ 07:58:36
Hi Jason this is brilliant please cut and past it into your along with the rules which are on my post and use the SoCs logo. This is a brilliant example of what SoCs is all about. Do join us , remember to put that you in that you are doing SoCs and that the prompt is mind. Add the pingback which is http://lindaghill.com/2015/08/21/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-august-2215/ now if you find that too hard which I am sure you will not I could reblog your post for you. Do join you have penned a great SoCs. 🙂
Aug 22, 2015 @ 22:45:18
very nice!
Aug 23, 2015 @ 00:31:17
I just read the rules!I really like your post! very nice!
Aug 23, 2015 @ 07:37:08
I was not too pleased with it but I went with it once you start you must not change. 😉
Aug 23, 2015 @ 11:45:06
Wow I thought it was very nice and real!
Aug 23, 2015 @ 11:57:55
Thanks that makes me feel better about it! 🙂
Aug 23, 2015 @ 11:59:26
I thought it was great
Aug 23, 2015 @ 02:34:17
This story reminded me of the one scene from Bridget Jones where she is running to talk to Mark, all dressed nice, and a huge puddle gets plashed all over her outfit from a passing vehicle.
🙂
Nice to see how many times you fit the word into your post.
🙂
Aug 23, 2015 @ 07:34:07
Thank you it was really just about trying to use the word mind! I was thinking of what it was like many moons ago when I had a mum to rely on. 🙂
Aug 23, 2015 @ 12:31:48
Loved your writing sample! Great idea! It gets the words flowing!
Aug 23, 2015 @ 12:57:40
Thank you I was not sure if it was any good. 🙂