Writing Prompt: Betting On Emotions Instead of Instinct. Resisting the luxury of hindsight.

Tuesday [05.04.24]- If I could go back in time.. would I remember the moment or the emotion? and each time you remember do you forget something or learn a new lesson?

Me Alone With A Camera In The Mirror - age 28 - Before Selfies Became Socially Acceptable & This Photograph Was Considered A Narcissistic Trait [2010]

I always wore my heart on my sleeve hoping someone would come and take care of it because it was useless to me at that point. I didn’t know how to work with it or for it or what the fuck it wanted. Why did I even have one? Metaphorically speaking of course.

[2001]

Instinct laughed and rolled it’s eyes… emotions felt ‘snide’ and of course the wishful thinking seeing some glimpse of possibility in the statement of “I love you” something I’d never heard before. Could it really be? Instinct told me this was too corny, too shit, not me, not right but then emotions grabbed me by the elbow and said “fucking go with it..” and so it all began like this:

[2010]

Emotion says it’s not over - instinct says run with the new..!

At this moment in time I had been alone and separated for about two years. The party was over. When I fell in love with my current partner it was like falling into the arms of a saviour. Quite honestly, it was do or die. I need to write about this more… x

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Writing Prompt: Betting On Emotions Instead of Instinct. Resisting the luxury of hindsight.

If I could go back in time.. would I remember the moment or the emotion? and each time you remember do you forget something or learn a new lesson?

Exercise: write something where you chose to act on your emotional connection even though it went against your gut instinct. Explain it without using hindsight to describe what happened. Then give an additional excerpt (a line or two in a stanza if it’s a poem, an extra paragraph if it’s something else) where you apply hindsight and a birds eye view of it all.

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