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Once in a Lifetime made me think of the song by Talking Heads with that for the title. The lyrics in the song examine a person’s life through the choices and their responses to those choices. The song could be a template, where you could customize it with the experiences you’ve had based on your choices and the questions those choices and experiences raise. The reality is that each moment of our lives is a unique, converging intersecting opportunity, where our choices shift the configuration of the all. I think they call it the butterfly effect. I used to think that minutely examining past moments and trying to troubleshoot and learn from them was the most valuable thing to do to have a better quality of experiences in the future. The shocking realization that the now was being left out of the equation hit me hard right between the eyes…

Once in a lifetime

You’d only want it to happen once in your lifetime. The call from the doctor to say your recent pathology test results are in.

You know when they ring the news is never going to be good. I’ve yet to have a ‘once in a lifetime’ call telling me I am well, fit and healthy. I think such sentiments are taken for granted.

As we age our ‘once in a lifetimes’ centre around family and if we are lucky the opportunity to travel. Not around receiving news, you could easily find yourself sinking into the depths of depression as my friend says to me: if she was me and got the news I got she’d go to her bedroom and feel sorry and sook for the rest of time.

But I look at it as I can wake up each day, eat and do things, go…

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #129

EXPLORATION PROMPT 129

I invite you to explore either one or both of the following themes in your piece

1. Addiction
2. Depression

My face was distorted like a fish out of water, gulping for air.

At last, came a big procession of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaachho! I thought my lungs will burst out and eyes will pop out. 

There was a slight fever so I had to take leave from the office for a few days.

To my surprise, everyone, except the sufferer, knew the remedy for it.

Came advice from friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

One thing was common they all came up with the herbal tea.

Ginger, pepper, Tulsi/Basil leaves tea, make a good concoction, add some milk and honey and drink several times.

Does it work?

No.

But I suffered from acidity and burning sensation in the food pipe.

I had not heard of black tea or green…

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i want to leave my mark
stake my claim
create a new reality

it’s a “once in a lifetime” shot
because there is only one life
with limited chances to emerging

before it’s too late
leaving the only option
to watch as dreams fade

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #130

once in a lifetime
you will experience something
that you experience only
once in a lifetime

this may occur many times
but it is guaranteed to happen
twice
happily once at the beginning
sadly once at the end

fpr Reena’s Exploration Challenge

Addiction- a strong inclination to indulge in something repeatedly.

I’ve shaken a few addictions. Cigarette smoking from the age of 15 to 33. Playing blackjack in London’s west end casinos in my late teens. Scoffing boxes of chocolate. My worst chocolate experience was at a friends Christmas party where I spent the afternoon consuming a box of black magic chocolates washed down with rum and coke. I can still feel the buzz to this day and shudder every time I think of it. Today I console myself with two squares of Lindt 95% dark chocolate daily.

The one addiction I have never shaken is books. I can still remember the thrill when I graduated from the children’s section of the library to the adults. We were allowed a maximum of three books and I would visit the library twice a week for…