Category: Daily Prompt

Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Hey there old chap, Wow, you’ve got to turn 100 years old! I really don’t know how, but I’m sure glad you did it, I’m happy for you. If you can send me back some hints from the future, I’d be very interested. I want to know the…

Where would you go on a shopping spree? The year was 2016, and I did go on a shopping spree then. Several things contributed for it to happen. I was in an international trip to the USA. Electronics in Brazil were very expensive then, and still continue to be. But not only that, clothes and…

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? The other day I was talking about the meaning and significance of my first name. But I don’t have a middle name. I have no idea if my mom and dad had a plan to give me one when I was born. This might…

What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. On the Oscars this year a reporter asked Timothée Chalamet if he could do the ‘skrt, skeet’ on the fly. He asked for a rain check. I asked for a rain check also for this post. Today I’m using it. During my first trip to…

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Once I got an invitation for a job interview in a management position. The job description was to manage a small group of about five people. It was a technical team and I practically had all the qualifications for that role. I…

You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? I dreamed of the future, and it became my reality. When I was a child, I had so many ambitions. It was not just luck. There was a lot of work and sacrifice involved. But thankfully I got to achieve many of those dreams. I got to…

What are three objects you couldn’t live without? I will start off by saying that, should the situation arise, it’s impossible for anyone to live with only three objects. We need way more than that to minimally subsist, specially in our modern world. So, I will not be taking this prompt literally but will list…

What experiences in life helped you grow the most? There have been innumerable situations that have helped me grow, no doubt. I don’t think a particular one has contributed more than others. Collectively, the ones helped the most were when I had to overcome a very difficult situation. Particularly those that were painful. As the…

Do you believe in fate/destiny? To answer that, we need to set some ground rules… First, let’s define what we understand by destiny, or fate, and chance. Destiny, fate, and chance According to Wikipedia: Destiny, sometimes also called fate (from Latin fatum ‘decree, prediction, destiny, fate’), is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in…

Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. I think I can say with confidence that I already passed through my midlife crisis. Hopefully I will not have another one, or God forbid, a rebound. Forty or Forty-five? One day, many years ago, I was in therapy talking with my psychologist.…