Daily writing prompt If you had to switch lives with a fictional character for a week, who would you choose? View all responses Doctor Strange, basing more on the MCU version of him. I'm curious about what's beyond our reality, but would do anything but risk any damage to it if it can be helped. Plus, Wong would be right there to check me if I did, since he's currently the Sorcerer Supreme, thank goodness, lol.

There are so few people in the world that are in positions of power that don't deserve multiple punches in the face. Sure, violence is not the answer, but it seems to be the language they love to speak. They're waiting for the right type of people to strike back as more of us fall by being risen against their will.

I remember the morning. I was in my room, unemployed and unsure where my next job would be. Turning the TV on hoping for some sort of relief. There's no need to explain what happened next, except confusion and uncertainty. Hoping this was somehow stock footage of the last time this happened, until proven otherwise. Desperate attempts to call or receive calls.

It's one thing to be loud to be heard, but how many of you have been loud just so people can finally listen to you? How many times have people been loud to you after they are told about themselves by you? It's that last set that, if it happens enough in a person's life, they risk never speaking at all.

"If it hurts you, it's about you." That's a line I believe I heard back in 2019, conveniently when my mental health journey really kicked off. Every year since then, there's been an example of that from myself and from others. I'll speak my peace about a person, and they deflect and turn me into a problem. Often it'll include something they've been inspired to say about me since they can't be the only one being judged for something.

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None of us know how much time we have left to be better than the person we regret living as. As long as you started out loud for people to see, hear, and feel, few would be bold enough to take that from you, especially after your time's come. Anyone that does will be outnumbered and revealed to be the inspiration for your changes.

The funniest thing I've noticed about my time of not writing as much on here, that I can be in conversations with different people and say things that are reflective of what I've said on here, and what deserves to be here in an extensive or basic form. Here's one example, stemming from an issue one friend is having about a person they disconnected from, but wishes to reconnect despite having alleged ties to a group that my friend also walked away from.

Last Saturday, August 1st, was the four-year anniversary of this page, and I meant to say something even then. So, I'm going to make up for it right here by first asking myself a question: What do I have to show for it? Given that this October will be 10 years since I first went to any counseling, and still seeing the one that I first met back in 2021, more was done within the past 4 years than I ever could have expected.

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The following series is for entertainment and educational purposes, only. Part 1Part 2Part 3 In closing, to the fellow black folk that read this and know of a Spot in your life or scope, y’all can do what you do with them. Not all of them are going to be on some Candace, Clarence, the Hodges, and especially Kanye type talk.

The following series is for entertainment and educational purposes, only. Please read parts 1 and 2, first. All of this is why the Spot is not without their own observations, especially when they can’t express any anger towards it without it turning into, arguably at best, a spiritual lynching. But at least with that, the lessons learned from it can prevent more emotional scars from joining the older ones.

Here are few examples that I’ve lived through. There was a side topic I overheard at a party regarding spotted lantern flies destroying crops in most of New Jersey, one season, and how there were full rallies about culling them to save the crops. During the talk, one of the men of the group shouted in jest that “flies lives matter,” which rang uncomfortable echoes of “Black Lives Matter.”

The following series is for entertainment and educational purposes, only. You can learn a lot from being the “spot in a cup of milk.” While I have a vague idea who first told me that phrase, I was quick enough to know what it meant in the context it was given in. Being the spot in a cup of milk referred to being the sole black person in a group of white people.

You can learn a lot about love in a very short amount of time. At times, it can be because you haven't healed a part of you that thinks you have to find and hold onto it just so you can be somebody to others. To feel like you are somebody to yourself because someone is at your side. That's when you get reminders, or even revelations of how you were acting in the pursuit of even short-term passion.

While I have been away, I knew that I would have some things to say during Black History Month. Turns out I have a LOT. It's one thing for me to ask if my peoples are good without them knowing that I am also black. It's another thing to assume that any black folk reading this aren't the ones being dismissive or celebrating the cruelty and bigotry that they think they are immune to.

Of all the things I can still speak on that left me bitter, disappointed, and even heartbroken, this year was not without its joys. For every promising or deep connection lost, new ones came through that reminded me better opportunities are ahead. For every declaration of ignorance against human rights, there were those ready to defend and expose those who chose hypocrisy.