Endless Inspiration 5
How will you spend this day?
I will spend this day, the day after a long weekend camping at a BMX competition in Cologne, a hot sunny day at the peak of summer, a day where I don’t have to debase myself in front of rude customers at the restaurant, in recovery. Today I have the time for recovery, and I intend to relish it. In fact, it is almost dinner time (barbecued pork ribs marinating in beer and barbecue sauce) and, looking back on the day, I am not dissatisfied with my performance. I visited one friend for the conversation. I retrieved some lost affects from another. I discovered a camping park with a lake fit for swimming, rules that allow open fires, and a surrounding forest riddled with bike trails less than fifteen minutes drive from my house. To some this may sound like a full day and not a day for recovery, but if in recent months I have unveiled a truth it is that twiddling thumbs and wasted days actually deplete the health level of a human being. In fact, a functional convalescence has nothing in common with idleness whatsoever. Among other things, a healthy body and mind need sun and exercise, both mental and physical. My legs have had their share for the day, my skin is still warm from walking outside, and now, though I can already feel the evening drawing my eyelids towards sleep, I exercise my mind by writing. There are many hours yet ahead of me and with the muses on my side and a pen in my hand they will be as full as the hours that came before.
* Explanation: posts whose titles follow the format Endless Inspiration # are for writing practice and contribute to a standing bet I made with this good friend. The prompts will be typed into the top of the post in bold and followed by responses. The prompts are from a book called The Pocket Muse 2: Endless Inspiration for Writers, where the # corresponds to the page number in the book where the prompt can be found. There are 217 pages in the book, most pages have prompts, and the first one is on page 5. The terms of the bet are that we each write 5 prompts per week until the entire book is finished. I do not necessarily intend to do them in order, just to do them all. I will post them relatively soon after I write them. They will be raw, uncut, and unrevised. The point of this exercise is not to attain perfection but to write creatively every single day and to keep each other motivated.
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