Day 26 - Selfie Freewrite Celebration Contest - Prize 106.29 SBD
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Day 26
Remember that there are lots of other fun events at the Freewrite House as well.
Yesterday, @byn presented you with this weeks edition of our Freewrite Favorites. A lot of them are chosen by you when you participate in Win SBI Tuesday or when you leave a link in the comments of that post.
Sundays, we have the Freewrite Poetry Digest presented by @wandrnrose7. Your poem could be in it.
@brisby does a wonderful interview series that allows you to get to know your fellow freewriters better. We share the SBD payout with the person interviewed. This week, get to know @byn more - and please leave a vote on the post.
Remember, we said we will have a SBI drawing for the eliminated? Check out the first one here
The Contest prize is growing every day!!!
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Eliminated players
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Some Fun Selfies from Yesterday
So many of your selfies were great!!! This is a random pic and yours will also be here someday 🤩
See if you already recognize each other's faces.
See if you can list all the names 😊
If you haven't checked the Daily Prompt yet...
Prompt: depression
Remember you have 24 hours to drop your selfie with you freewrite link into the comment section.
Looking forward to seeing all your beautiful faces - or masks - every day 🤪
Your selfie + freewrite must be posted by 8 AM Pacific Time on 6/9/2018
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Depression is a bitch. It’s one of those self-evident phrases we hear all the time—succinct but true. You’d think that based on the stigma behind it, it’s something that belongs to very few of us, something worthy of shame, but it seems to be a common affliction in American society a la 2018. Maybe depression is just endemic to humans, or maybe it has to do with our estrangement from nature and the habitats that molded us for hundreds of thousands of years. With all of these glaring lights and computer screens and that culture of hyper-competitiveness, it’s all inevitable. Sounds pretty Marxist, actually—estrangement from nature. I had a conversation about Marx the other night. Now, I’m a progressive, don’t get me wrong, but you’d think that from all of the college-aged supposed Marxists who are also social justice-inclined that Marx was some sort of egalitarian visionary—freedom from capitalism for all!—but the guy was basically a white supremacist by today’s standards. Well, a European supremacist, but I guess they’re one and the same if you really get down to it, and also ironically quite classist. Marx believed in a teleology—a natural progression of history that seems entirely European (read: white) and not at all considerate of people who lived in, you know, colonial (also read: occupied) territories. The ones who were actually subject to the worst of classism! It also assumes the ignorance of the masses and relies on white savior ideology, that the upper classes are somehow going to come to their moral defense. Now you can cut him some slack given that this was the 19th century and all, and in certain ways was certainly ahead of its time (in that it predicted industrialism before industrialism had truly taken over in all of its glory, at least the way we think of it) but the point stands that no true self-respecting socialist would ever stand behind pure Marxist philosophy these days, if they only knew what it really entailed.
I suppose I’ve gotten on a tangent here, and have given myself some self-fed food for thought (and possibly an article?) and this really doesn’t have much to do with depression at all. But that’s just how freewrites work! No short stories are coming out of this brain today. At least it’s not as bad as the time I wrote one hungover just to stay in the game. Hey, you asked for this.
I always enjoy reading what you have to say and you do provide food for thought. Good job with your drawing. It's okay to go off topic it is where you started!
It is with followers of Marx as it is with many followers of religion - if they only knew what the doctrine they "believe" in actually entails...
"... At least it’s not as bad as the time I wrote one hungover just to stay in the game. …" You're killing me! hahaha.
I think you may find this talk very interesting. You have no friends by John Henrik Clarke In it, he touches upon the fact that Marxism does not come from where the normies thinks it does. We also have a distorted view on what Marxism is because of those white Europeans you bring up in this piece. Power and control is the Europeans way it seems.
Oh boy, that freewrite was very free. I was like, talking about how I wanted to take my cat on road trips but that I don't know if she'd understand that she had to shit on the ground at pit stops. But hey, I'm still here!
Listening to the speech now. I'm a few minutes in, and wow. This is powerful.
Haha. Cats can be extremely picky where they do their business.
Very interesting read!!!! If everyone cleaned up their part of the earth, the whole world would be clean :D
I love it when a freewrite heads off on a tangent! That's one of the beauties of this exercise, that the same starting point can lead us all in different directions, each unique and interesting.
https://steemit.com/mentalhealth/@byn/real-talk-my-experience-with-suicidal-thoughts-and-the-effect-of-suicide-in-my-life
This one went deep...
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@wandrnrose7/depression-a-trigger-prompt-day-26-selfie-freewrite-celebration
Preparing for our flight to Buffalo to visit my brother & his wife at 5 tonight. I'm hoping to keep up! We shall see. Have a wonderful weekend and I'll read/comment as I have time.
I'm absolutely drooling over these selfies! I love @eroticabain shirt!
Don't forget my 7, @freewritehouse <3
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My Freewrite MakeMeSmile 2 in 1. https://steemit.com/makemesmile/@elizacheng/makemesmile-week-17-announcement-post-makemesmile-freewrite-makemesmile
My way of fighting off depression!
Whoa, from cherries and all these happy selfies into depression.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@kimberlylane/on-depression
If only more people would listen.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@brisby/even-the-mighty
All too often depression is seen as a form of sadness.
Instead, depression sucks the joy out of everything you do in life - even the things you once loved doing. It robs you of feelings. It's somewhat easy to fake a laugh then. Somewhat easy to appear okay, when you're truly not.
Some of the people that appear most joyous and vibrant may be some of the most depressed people.
To whoever struggling, do know there's people out there you can talk to. And should talk to.
My door is always open.
I may not hold answers, or know what to say, but I'm here for you.
Always.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@svashta/wild-west-chapter-10-part-4-5-minute-freewrite-challenge
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mmasim/freewrite-5-min-prompt-depression
My depression with my selfie
MY 5 minute freewrite post link
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@digitalmind/day-26-prompt-depression-200-day-selfie-5-minutes-freewrite-contest