Prompt Of The Week
July 20th 2010 12:25
Today's prompt is:
Write 500 words about falling in love
My Response:
Love is something we all dream about. Everybody's looking for love. Everybody wants somebody to hold them for the rest of their life. Songs, poems, entire books have been written about falling in love, and even more have been written about falling out of love. Love can bring great happiness or great pain, great gain or great loss. Love can bring about joy and prosperity or it can bring about-in the wrong people-destruction and even war. Love is perhaps the greatest driving force on this planet other than the planet itself. And love is the biggest four letter word in the language.
We chase after love day after day. As children we seek plutonic love and the love of our parents; as teenagers and adults we seek the love with whom we will have our children. We torture ourselves looking for love. We base our worth on whether or not somebody else can love us-how screwed is that? And if nobody does love us the way we want to be loved, we think we're worthless or monstrous or any number of things. We convince ourselves that we're bad people or that we're ugly when really we're not. Women settle for men who beat them every day because they're convinced they deserve it, that they can't do better. Men settle for women who annoy them to no end for much the same reasons.
We are worth something even if nobody is in love with us, even if we cannot find love of the kind we're seeking. We are worth something so long as we try to be worth something, so long as we work towards creating a better future for us and our loved ones. Just because nobody loves you doesn't mean you aren't beautiful; maybe it just means that men are fools.
And sometimes, you know, love isn't enough for us to realize our worth. Even though somebody loves us, even though somebody wants to be with us, we still think that we're ugly, we still think that we're worthless. But if somebody else can delight in our body, if somebody else can adore our body, why can't we love it too? If we can love somebody's body, if we can adore somebody else's body, why can't we love our own? Do you just assume there's something wrong with the person who enjoys your body? Maybe that's a mistake.
If a thousand men tell you you're beautiful, a hundred of them are desparate and just want to get laid-but it's the other nine hundred who at least kind of mean it who you should be listening to. And if nobody tells you you're beautiful, than maybe the world is blind; most of us are beautiful, just some of us have beauty hidden on the inside.
Next time you're sad because you aren't in love, remember that there's somebody for everybody, but you have to become who you want to be before you can find somebody that wants to be with that person.
Your turn.
Write 500 words about falling in love
My Response:
Love is something we all dream about. Everybody's looking for love. Everybody wants somebody to hold them for the rest of their life. Songs, poems, entire books have been written about falling in love, and even more have been written about falling out of love. Love can bring great happiness or great pain, great gain or great loss. Love can bring about joy and prosperity or it can bring about-in the wrong people-destruction and even war. Love is perhaps the greatest driving force on this planet other than the planet itself. And love is the biggest four letter word in the language.
We chase after love day after day. As children we seek plutonic love and the love of our parents; as teenagers and adults we seek the love with whom we will have our children. We torture ourselves looking for love. We base our worth on whether or not somebody else can love us-how screwed is that? And if nobody does love us the way we want to be loved, we think we're worthless or monstrous or any number of things. We convince ourselves that we're bad people or that we're ugly when really we're not. Women settle for men who beat them every day because they're convinced they deserve it, that they can't do better. Men settle for women who annoy them to no end for much the same reasons.
We are worth something even if nobody is in love with us, even if we cannot find love of the kind we're seeking. We are worth something so long as we try to be worth something, so long as we work towards creating a better future for us and our loved ones. Just because nobody loves you doesn't mean you aren't beautiful; maybe it just means that men are fools.
And sometimes, you know, love isn't enough for us to realize our worth. Even though somebody loves us, even though somebody wants to be with us, we still think that we're ugly, we still think that we're worthless. But if somebody else can delight in our body, if somebody else can adore our body, why can't we love it too? If we can love somebody's body, if we can adore somebody else's body, why can't we love our own? Do you just assume there's something wrong with the person who enjoys your body? Maybe that's a mistake.
If a thousand men tell you you're beautiful, a hundred of them are desparate and just want to get laid-but it's the other nine hundred who at least kind of mean it who you should be listening to. And if nobody tells you you're beautiful, than maybe the world is blind; most of us are beautiful, just some of us have beauty hidden on the inside.
Next time you're sad because you aren't in love, remember that there's somebody for everybody, but you have to become who you want to be before you can find somebody that wants to be with that person.
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Comment by RedParrot
Usual spot.
I think I cheated. It's about 650 words. More Elgin World.
This is my second shot at writing this week's FF. I wrote the first one from Elgin's POV and it was rubbish. Didn't work at all ... so having no bright ideas about how to fix it, I just changed to a different voice. I think Benny isn't quite Benny enough ... if you know what I mean. Having said that - he speaks like Benny ... and I think Elgin is still there in what he says ... Avis is more or less right.
I really like some of the concepts you talk about in your essay. Especially about liking one's self being important. If that works, everything else is easy.
: )
As ever, I look forward to Tuesday's and another topic. This is the first time I have ever a) written through the summer and b) written regular Flash Fiction.
Thanks for all the great prompts!
Cheers!
RP
Comment by Dianna G
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That's an amazing piece. I like the new voice. I also like the way you bring Avis into the scene; you show just briefly the woman that I've come to think is breaking Elgin's heart.
Some of the turns of phrase are great and the voice is definitely consistent.
I'm glad that I've inspired you to continue writing throughout the summer and I've enjoyed reading the pieces you've written to these prompts. I've got some great pictures now so there will be some picture prompts in the next couple of weeks. I'm excited for those as they'll be a first here on Fictional Worlds.
~Dianna