Tag: dailyprompt

Do you need time? I was working late in the office. My eyes were fixated on the monitor of the computer and my hands and fingers were moving over the keyboard pressing the required keys. The Sun had gone down, and the nighttime was doing its shift. The fatigue was slowly spreading over my mind…

Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate. Holidays, what a joy they are to people young and old. While children and adult get a bit of relief from their every day school, college or professional life, old people are just happy to find their near and dear ones visiting them or just…

Describe a family member. Now, that I think back, it was truly a beautiful day. My grandfather loved his typewriter. It was after all the latest typing technology of his time; he had spent his entire professional life as a journalist with it. By this time computers had started appearing in houses of people, but…

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in? It was Saturday night. I had planned to see a movie on this day earlier that week and here I was in front of my television. The brightness of the television screen spread through my intentionally dimly lit room and the screen itself was…

What food would you say is your specialty? It was a late summer night. I was unable to drift out into sleep, so I had decided to drift into the world of a book. My overhead headphones had started to give a feeling of uneasiness to the ears, so I removed them and kept them…

What major historical events do you remember? The road was still….. still with absence of frequent human presence. It mostly interacted with the passing breeze and was walked upon often by different insects, squirrels and street dogs. Occasionally different perching birds landed on its surfaces, hopping around, playing with each other, looking for food or…

What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to? Hey, today is a beautiful day and here we are going to know all about your mindset while taking a risk. Risks ! You know what according to scientists and researchers it is said that most people have a side of…

When you think of the word “successful,” who’s the first person that comes to mind and why? The car stopped at the traffic light. I was driving it. The red light had a few seconds left on its timer. Sometimes a few seconds are sufficient to observe a bit of the world around. A shared…

What principles define how you live? It was a bit odd. He was late quite late…. my expected guest. Maybe the homely atmosphere of a Sunday persuaded him to spend more time with his bed. I had a bit of preparation left myself. I took out a dove grey coloured tablecloth and spread it over…

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)? Like every afternoon, Mr. Bose filled his journal , a big fat diary where he writes everything in detail .. and this is a new habit after retirement that he has gathered . With sudden pain inside the stomach one night…

If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to? Million dollars when said I remember those reallity shows where they give out prize money to the winners and yes when they ask what will you do with this amount .. the answers varies and yes it helps me to…

What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail. Like every Wednesday Mohan’s teacher asked him and the entire class to write an essay on ” The riskiest thing or activity he has ever done in life” . This week it was his turn to read aloud his essay after the safe…

What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself? I once sat staring at the television screen. An ambient music was playing, it was a collection of several ambient music tracks. The person who had compiled all the tracks together had added a video along with it. It was animated and, in the video,…

What is your favorite hobby or pastime? I was lying down on my bed. My eyes were close. A drop of precipitate formed on the side of my forehead and trickled down the sidelines towards my right ear. I wiped it off with my hand before it could enter the auditory canal of my ear.…

What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind? The curtain danced along with the breeze and this is the time when Mrs. Gupta naps for 1hour straight… after lunch and cleaning the utensils this time she specifically preserves for an afternoon nap.. often she has heard people saying and discussing over the…

Your life without a computer: what does it look like? Here I am, sitting with the keys of my computer just beneath my fingers. My fingers are continuously moving and pressing the keys which will make the intended letters appear on the screen forming the word, the sentence, the paragraph I have in my mind.…

What skill would you like to learn? The birds had begun to chirp, the cool morning breeze was knocking over the doors and windows…. a new day had begun. Distorted sound of the radio dispersed through the household, it was grandmother, like every morning of her life she had begun her day rotating the tuning…

What details of your life could you pay more attention to? The lead of the pencil made its stride across the white sheet leaving behind a trail of what would eventually be the formation of a thought. This trail was part of a much bigger picture. The pencil continued to follow an unknown trail amidst…

What could you do more of? On a particular day of my life, my parents had gone out of station, I was at my home with my grandparents and my dog. That night, sleep couldn’t find the path to reach me, neither could I give it the right directions to where I was… we just…