Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “motion.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
Motion
Motion.
Life is always in motion, isn’t it?
Even when we think we’re standing still.
The Earth is spinning, the clouds are moving, the tide is coming and going, and somewhere a person is probably running after a bus they swore they weren’t going to miss. 😂
Meanwhile, I’m sitting here with my coffee thinking about motion.
I’ve never been very good at sitting completely still anyway.
My hands need something to do.
Write.
Play music.
Tap a rhythm.
Scroll through something I absolutely did not need to look at and suddenly realise an hour has disappeared. 😂
But there is another kind of motion too.
The kind we don’t always notice.
Life moving forward.
Children growing up.
Seasons changing.
People entering our lives and others leaving.
Dreams changing shape.
Things that once seemed impossible becoming ordinary.
Sometimes we fight that motion.
We want to hold onto a moment and say, Wait. I’m not finished with this yet.
But time doesn’t listen.
It keeps moving.
Maybe that’s why photographs, music and writing matter so much to me.
For a moment, they stop the motion.
A photograph catches one second.
A song brings an old memory rushing back.
Words preserve a feeling that might otherwise disappear.
And then we move again.
Forward, sideways, occasionally backwards and sometimes in circles wondering what the hell we’re doing. 😂
But still moving.
Maybe life was never supposed to be a straight road.
Maybe we’re simply meant to stay in motion, collecting stories along the way.
And if today all you can manage is one tiny step?
That’s still motion. 💜
With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
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