Here’s this week’s installment of Five Minute Friday, where a group of us tackle the task of writing for five minutes on a specific prompt word from our moderator, Kate Motaung. After writing, we share our thoughts at Kate’s place on Facebook at http://www.fiveminutefriday.com. Then we get to sit back and read what our fellow writers have posted. It’s always inspiring.
I’ve been including snippets from other writers, taken from Five Minute Friday: A Collection of Stories Written in Five Minutes Flat. Listen to why Elizabeth finds Five Minute Friday so rewarding. Maybe she can convince you to visit or, better yet, give it a try!
“Blogging was a way for me to reconnect to my long lost love of writing. When I lost focus and wasn’t sure how to continue, when I was overwhelmed by life’s busy-ness, when I wasn’t sure I had anything worthwhile left to say, a Five Minute Friday prompt would appear in my inbox and, the next thing you know, I was writing again.”
This week’s prompt is ADAPT. The timer is set, so let’s GO …
One thing I have learned. Life is unpredictable. Just when you think you know where it’s going or think you know what to expect, bam!, along comes a surprise.
For some people, the surprise throws them completely off kilter. It scares them when they don’t know e-x-a-c-t-l-y how things are playing out . They have a hard time adapting to change.
Surprises throw me off as well … the check that doesn’t come until tomorrow … the interview that featured questions I wasn’t quite expecting. But I don’t let them throw me too far off kilter. I adapt. I go to Plan B … or Plan C … or, well, there are 26 letters in the alphabet and sometimes I have used pretty much of them.
As I’ve aged, I find myself more accepting of the unexpected. I don’t like it, but I just decided when surprises happen, they happen for a reason (often unknown to me by a God who knows way more than I do) and generally lead to other blessings I hadn’t thought of. ... STOP
… I guess I’ll chalk it up to FAITH.
THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Being the only person not to do something either makes you extremely clever or really stupid. — Steven Fox
I just pretend that plan C is plan A, and try to fool circumstance into messing up what I DIDN’T want to do so that I can sneak around it and accomplish the primary goal on the sly.
Yeah, doesn’t work. But it’s fun.
https://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2018/05/your-dying-spouse-466-lets-put-fun-back.html
When I get to Plan C [or beyond] I tell everyone threat was the original plan all along. Peace!