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Writing prompt 7th Jan’ 24 (What Could I Do More)

Daily writing prompt
What could you do differently?
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Where do we start and who makes the rules? Why can’t we be flawed, why is there this constant requirement to be perfect, to be better. If I am content and happy in my ways, is it wrong to not have ambition, to say, “I don’t actually want to climb the corporate ladder”, I don’t want to learn and practice hour after hour my musical scales on the keyboard or guitar, I don’t want to sit in a classroom and learn exactly how to paint, I don’t want to follow rules on how to write creatively. I don’t want to be perfect! I am quite happy being “the stone the builders rejected”
But the question is ;-More! Please Sir, I’m quite happy with my fill, I’m quite happy with what I’ve done, but there are other things to dabble with rather than perfecting one. There are other pursuits, and hobbies… more! ?

My motto is this;-
I am an apprentice to many paths, and a master of none !

But! I’m sullying the question, I’m dodging the task… WHAT DO I NEED TO DO MORE OF !!!
I need to exercise more, I need to switch off more. They are polar opposites, one intense activity, the other ~ nothing and stillness, but that is the answer to what I need to do more of.

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    hell yeah

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Wot’s this all about then Guv’nor ?;-
The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.

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