Everyday Canvas

Plot Twist and Daring to Dance

Prompt: Write a blog entry about what happened in your life today.

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Oh, well! I guess today has been a learning experience or maybe a small-scale plot twist.

Or I might have stepped in something that gave off out-of-this-planet vibes. The morning routine wasn’t so bad. It felt like any other day...until I sat at the computer.

I had put it to sleep from the night before. It woke up fine but then, it froze. I had files I was working on, and luckily I had saved them. After restarting it, which took forever, I was able to bring up everything the way I wanted them, but this took at least 45 minutes.

Then, I received a letter from the bank asking for the house insurance papers. ‘No, problem,’ I thought. ‘I’ll just scan and send them.

Oh, oh! Now, I found out that the printer/scanner had gone kaput. It wasn’t doing so well for the last couple of months but I was able to get it going after a few tries, or maybe I should say, ‘life trials’.

This time, no such luck!

So I grabbed the documents and went to the bank. This, not the tellers but the only the upper-grade bank people could do. There was only one person working on the floor. She is someone I know and like, so I sat down to wait for her to finish a couple’s business. How could I know their business was a complicated thing! It took close to a two-hour wait. When they were gone, she took care of me. My business lasted less than 10 minutes. She told me, “You know, you could easily do it on your computer.”

I told her I couldn’t since my printer/scanner had died. She told me not to bother trying to get it fixed. “Get a new one,” she said. She’s right, of course. So I ordered a new one, something that wasn’t planned but so be it. The thing is, I rarely use the machine, but once in a while something like this springs up and it isn’t there when I need it.

By the time I got home to serve lunch, it was three in the afternoon. After that, so far so good!

As I said earlier, PLOT TWIST!

Prompt: "Dare to dance. Leave shame at home." Hawaiian Proverb What are your thoughts about this?


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Daring to dance brings to mind a dance style called bravura. The word points to the display of great daring and technical brilliance. I am not skilled at all with such dancing.

On the other hand, I am guessing the proverb means something other than the dancing skill. If taken at face value, however, any gullible person believing it would start dancing to express herself or himself in the middle of a busy mall, supermarket, or any other public place. Imagine a few people like that around you while you are selecting zucchini in the store!

So I am guessing, again, that the proverb advises not to hold back on what we can do, if what we can do expresses who we are. Within reason, of course. And definitely within the limits of law and social rules.