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Hate + Anger = Tech Billionaires

What are you most proud of in your life?

I am proud that I have come to the realization that much of what occurs on social media is curated to get us angry and take no real action. It creates divisions between us based on race, age, gender and religion when we should be fighting together in this class struggle.

It’s not enough that at every turn we are met with resistance in the labour movement but wages finally go up only for inflation to raise the cost of everything and leave us even further behind. We are told this is the way the economy works, it needs working people to be poor and to live pay check to pay check.

I’m proud that I have realized that I will try my very best to not engage in spreading or emboldening hate as the only purpose it serves is to make others wealthy.

Me

What have you been working on?

I’ve been working on being a better person. That has included accepting the bad, the good and the in-between.

It’s also just meant accepting that the vision I have of some perfect future me may never actualize and the existing version is just fine.

I’m considering what relationships still serve me, wondering why I hold on to the ones that do not. Wondering if I give people chances out of compassion or out of fear that I may need that grace in the future.

Fear has showed itself a lot in my quest to be better, I never thought there was anything I couldn’t do but I think as you get older life shows you that there is much to fear.

So I guess I’ve been working on the fear that this may be as good as it gets and acknowledging no accepting that’s ok?

Ode to a Single Mother – The Settle Down Selections 

Daily writing prompt
What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?

Our fathers have passed

Our fathers have left

Our mothers have tried

Our mothers stood tall

Now the world says we should be ashamed

O no, that I will not do

I will not feel shame about the one that raised me, raised me against all odds

O no definitely not, for I know that woman is a queen

O no I am not sorry, I am not ashamed I was raised by a single mother

Our fathers have failed

Our fathers are gone

Our mothers have tried

Our mothers have stood tall