Sometimes it seems like my whole day is just a series of small "give ups". A cup of coffee that gets cold and I don't get to drink it while it's still warm, an idea that comes to my mind and in the end I give up on it because I don't have the courage to realize it. Then I promise myself that I will do it tomorrow, but then again nothing.
But today's DailyPrompt made me pause and say to myself: I'm not giving up yet. It's like someone is telling me, "Bojan, you're not done. You still have something to say."
And that's where my five-minute writing begins
I set the timer, relaxed, then read today's Dailyprompt thread. I didn't think about the rules, I don't arrange sentences, I don't go back to fix commas like a professor. I'm just writing and watching something spill out of me that I didn't even know I was wearing.
The beauty of these daily prompts is that you stop for a moment, take a breath, and say to yourself, "Okay, maybe I didn't get everything done today… but I'm not done yet." And honestly, that's quite enough.
If you want to try it, set a timer for five minutes and let the words guide you instead of you guiding them. And if you want to write longer, write freely. Here, the rules only serve to embrace them, then bypass them. And there it is, my little clue today. I didn't give up. Not quit yet.