Day: February 25, 2020

Ants are thought on as being industrious creatures, but sometimes I wonder … I’ve been watching these ant nests a little in the last few days, and to my untutored eye, their meanderings look random.

Random isn’t necessarily though, I suppose, sometimes, anyway. They emerge from the ant nest, head off, connect briefly with other ants, head in a different direction, connect again, disappear from the screen, do a u turn, and so on …

Would watching short snaps, over and over again lead to new ideas, do you think? That’s what I was thinking about, anyway, and finally I’ve gone outside with my phone, and fine some filming. Just a short piece, and I don’t know if this will even work, but let’s just see …

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I think there are ants in that photo, but you can’t see them. And there isn’t anything moving there, because WordPress won’t let me do that. So if you want to, imagine lots of biggish ants, busily getting around their business, while I watch quite close by, phone/camera in hand, filming them … the filming was done, but I can’t load it to this blog …

The imagination is a wonderful thing though!

Today’s writing prompt is LIES.
Some people might say they never tell lies, but I think that’s not true … It’s a lie. Surely all of us have fibbed at least some time in our lives? Whether it’s a lie told to yourself, a loved one, workmate, friend, employer, whoever, we all lie in some way at some times in our lives, don’t we?

I lie to myself when I say to myself, ‘Yes, I’ll do that tomorrow’. Sure enough, tomorrow comes along and that ‘thing’ doesn’t happen. Again … And of course fibbing to stay ‘nice’ is something needed at times in our lives, in the interests of keeping the peace in a variety of different ways. ‘Yes it looks good on you, well worth the price …’ told to a friend who possibly shouldn’t have spent the money on an item of clothing, but it’s too late now, and they needed cheering up.

This kind of ‘social smoothing’ keeps society rolling along well, most of the time. Sometimes things hit a snag, but mostly it’s OK, and we all keep on keeping on, lies, fibs, over/under statements, and all …

 

A brief poem of mine, about lies:

 

Of Course

Of course I’ll love you to the end

it doesn’t matter how much you spend

I can afford it, worth every cent

the joy you bring is Heaven sent …

 

I’ll pay you back, before next week

I didn’t know, I never peek

If you didn’t want me to know

should’ve hidden it, where it don’t show!

 

Of course you’ll get the money back

you’ll manage anyway, you’ve got a stack

What d’ya mean, I still owe you money?

What’s yours is mine, isn’t t honey?

 

And the other way around, yeah of course

but I need the money to back a horse

it’s a dead set winner, no way it can lose

of course I can stop gambling, if I chose!

 

 

So this writing prompt for today, mixed in with a lot of media coverage recently, and my own thoughts about life, my own and that of others, lead me to this little poem, which came along easily enough. It may  require some editing, but I’m content with it right now. Writing about things that are in the media, where there can be many different viewpoints is always great for getting the material, to write about lies.

Even if you are a totally honest person, you can be sure there are many other people speaking and writing, who almost tell lies for a living … And most of us want to ‘cover our own arse’ in times of potential trouble, and sometimes lies, fibs, and those nuanced interpretations come into things again.

So think about all of these things. take a look at your own ideas about it all, and get writing about lies. it will be enlightening and fun! Would I lie to you?

haha!