Daily Five Minute Challange - "Like"

Here we go. This is my five minute writing exercise where I blindly choose a word from a random page in the nearest book to me and I set the timer for five minutes. In that time I will write from that word and will not stop until the alarm says so. Then I will finish my sentence and treat myself to something like a jelly pot, or an activity I need to do. I will try and do this daily….after all it is only five minutes of my time.

So today's word is....."Like..."

And...they're off....

Like most people, I think, I enjoy life. Not always, but then I don’t think it’s always appropriate to like life. When a family member dies, or when you lose your job is one of this inappropriate times to enjoy life...unless you hate your company and you couldn’t stand the drug taking, thieving excuse of a cousin.

I like life at the moment, but then maybe that’s because I’m still coming back up from what was a reasonably low point in my life. I mean it wasn’t awfully low; worse things could have happened to me, but it certainly wasn’t a barrel of laughs. I tell the story so often, so I’ll skip past the details as it’d only depress you anyway. The main point of the lowness was that I wasn’t allowed to deal with the situation as myself. The boyfriend I was with at the time had squished me into a sort of person that was weary of what she thought and the image she portrayed. This was also a person who didn’t care much about her appearance or herself as she was “fine, just the way you are”. Look, if I girl doesn’t want to eat KFC every night of her life then let her have the healthy salad or go for a long walk. It was extremely infuriating.


That was a very quick five minutes....I wonder if I can up my word count as I go on doing this daily? Kind of like running I guess...I can push myself to go faster and longer with constant practice. 


Also my treat for doing this was a pot of strawberry jelly and reading a letter from my lovely friend Gracie.