Trapped Inside Myself Writing Prompts

30 Days of Blogging Challenge: Days 17 and 18 How Negativity and Health

I have adjusted my postings to every other day until the challenge is over. Today’s prompt is how negativity impacts my health. As a result of working from home, grieving my father’s death and adjusting to a return to office work, my physical health has declined. At the start of the pandemic in 2019, I weighed 250lbs.  By the fall of 2020, I had achieved a weight of 200lbs. Since the spring of 2021, I…

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30 Days of Blogging: Days 15 and 16 Reflection

  Today is the halfway point of the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. No prompt today, just my own thoughts. In writing these last two weeks I find my focus gravitating between excitement and boredom.  The excitement comes from trying to get my words onto the page. However, I have found boredom to be the main feeling I experience when writing. I know I chose the writing prompts to build a foundation, but I still feel…

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30 Days of Blogging: Days 13 and 14 Expectations vs Reality

  It is now the fourteenth day of this blogging challenge. I missed yesterday’s posting due to fatigue, but I made a commitment to trying to write a post every day. As mentioned in previous posts, I will be using writing prompts to build the foundation of this habit. Today’s prompt regards life expectations vs the reality that I experience. Like many people growing up at the tail end of neoliberal policy, I had a…

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30 Days of Blogging: Day 12 Yoga

  It is now my twelfth entry for the 30 Days of blogging challenge. Today’s prompt is about a specific form of exercise that you’ve come to love and why. In the last two weeks, I have begun a yoga habit. As a large-bodied person, I have often struggled with maintaining a healthy weight. In my twenties, I tried a variety of exercises to try to lose weight. For a time I had taken up…

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30 Days of Blogging: Day 11 Journaling Negativity

  It is now the 11th day of this blogging challenge. The flow of words is coming more naturally now. I’m not really in a rush or writing to be picked up by search engine robots. Today’s prompt is about journaling negativity. With my own introverted personality and pessimistic outlook. To deal with such disappointments I have taken to writing. In a sense, these blog posts are a form of journaling. Journaling as an introvert…

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30 Days of Blogging: Day 10 Replacement Habits

Today I’m getting back to using writing prompts. I started to write this challenge to replace a negative habit of consuming media. I think part of the reason that I feel miserable in my isolation is due to the overconsumption of information. Too much of anything is often bad for you. For myself that used to be alcohol and weed. Though I have drastically reduced my alcohol intake in the last two years, I should…

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30 Days of Blogging: Day 8 and 9 Reflections

It has been nine days since I’ve committed to this challenge. Many articles state that it takes 30 days to build a habit. I missed posting on day eight to file taxes. Therefore days eight and nine will be my personal reflections on what I felt when building this writing habit. Prompts work but I have trouble articulating what I want to say At the beginning of this challenge, I committed to using writing prompts.…

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30 Days of Blogging: Day 6 My Meaning of Life

I am still using writing prompts to build my foundations. Today’s prompt is stating the meaning of my life. The short answer is to be happy. The longer answer gets more complicated. Happiness is something that I often struggle with because everything is fucked from my socially dead perspective. I will use a James Baldwin quote that expresses my current worldview: “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to…

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