Mortality - 5 Minute Freewrite
Prompt of the Day 69: grounding
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Grounding is used to prevent damage to electrical devices, right? From lightning storms for example, with lightning conductor. Talking about storms, a story my friend told me some time ago popped in my mind: In his youth there was an incident, I think it involved a storm hence why it came to my head, when a friend of my friend was on a swing when suddenly a tree started falling. So, my friend shouted: "Jump!" He jumped off the swing right on time because the falling tree crushed the swing from the exact spot where he was swinging. Must've been a surreal to think you would be pretty much dead if it wasn't for jumping away from it just seconds before the crash. Talk about a grounding experience, to realize one's mortality...
Introduction to freewriting by @mariannewest
My previous freewrites:
Day 68: Comfort
Day 66: Oblivion
Day 65: Space Toilets and Gender
I'll likely have a few day break from posting for I'm going to visit my relatives and there's no computer available there (and what the hell am I doing if I were to travel 500km just to sit on my ass by a computer, like in my home) so freewrites are unlikely, unless I get inspired to write on my phone... which I'm not whether I'm going to so, even tho it has been done before by a fellow freewriter that I can't now recall by name (sorry about that...).
But keep on freewriting and we will see again not later than 2018!
Picture via Pixabay, GIF from Giphy
wow!! good thing he jumped!! Enjoy your family!! and you are right - living life instead of hanging on our electronics is a good thing!!
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