Ich hab mich jetzt für den Writing 101 Challenge von WordPress eingetragen. Man bekommt jeden Tag eine Aufgabe bzw. ein Thema, worüber man schreiben soll. Dadurch gewöhnt man sich daran, jeden Tag zu schreiben. Die Challenge geht 20 Tage. Man kann sich aussuchen, was man postet und was nicht. 🙂 Ich habe jetzt erstmal auf Englisch geschrieben, mal sehen ob ich dabei bleibe. Wenn ihr diesen Blog abonniert habt und das langweilig findet, schmeißt die e-mails enfach weg … ich mach das für mich, weil es Spaß macht und ich mal sehen will, wsa dabei herauskommt. 😉

Die erste Aufgabe war, 20 Minuten lang alles zu schreiben, was einem einfällt, ohne Rücksicht darauf, ob es schön ist, ob es vollständig ist, ob es einfach nur Bullshit ist.

Ich saß vor meinem Fenster und lauschte den Vögeln. Dann flogen drei große Vögel mit Riesen-Spannweite über unser Dach hinweg. Störche? Reiher? Keine Ahnung. Auf jeden Fall dachte ich dann plötzlich daran, wieviel Vielfalt es in der Natur gibt, nur die Menschen denken oft, es gäbe einen „richtigen“ Weg und man mßßte so und so sein … Darüber habe ich dann geschrieben. Ob das jetzt klassicher stream-of-consciousness ist, weiß ich nicht, aber es war jedenfalls das, was herauskam.

To get started, let’s loosen up. Let’s unlock the mind. Today, take twenty minutes to free write. And don’t think about what you’ll write. Just write.

Keep typing (or scribbling, if you prefer to handwrite for this exercise) until your twenty minutes are up.

I was sitting in front of my window listening to the songs of the small birds. Suddenly three huge birds came flying over our rooftop, and that set me off thinking how much diversity there is in nature, only humans think they have to follow „one“ way … and I started writing about htat. (BTW I wrote it by hand first, and haven’t been writing in English for a while, so I hope you’ll bear with me.) This is what came out of it:

Weird Creatures

Nature brings forth all kinds of creatures. Some hunt for food. Some eat what others throw away. Some are carrion eaters. Some eat plants or seeds, and some eat meat. Most birds build their own nests, but the cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds’s nests. They don’t want to have to work to raise their young. 😉 Still, everyone is glad to hear the cuckoo in the spring.

Then there’s plants. Most plants live on sunlight and water, but some eat insects. They come in all sizes, from the tiniest moss to the tallest tree. Creepy crawlies too … there are little green bugs not even 1 mm long, that would look like giant dangerous monsters to others that are even smaller. It’s a world full of wonders.

Why am I saying this? Because some people seem to think that it would be good if everyone were the same. They believe there are some absolute rules, that there is THE way to be and if everyone just followed that the world would be okay.

But we are all different, and what’s good and natural for one creature might not be natural for someone else. If an oak tree tried to become a butterfly, that just wouldn’t work. But some people think they have to follow rules that were not made for the likes of them … just because they want to be like others.

It’s good to know what kind of creature you are, and live according to your own nature. instead of emulating a way of life that doesn’t really fit you, only because you think it’s somehow better than your own, or because others have told you that you “must” be this way (or else …) You may lose some people’s sympathies if you do what’s good for you, but at least you will be following your nature, and that is ultimately what will make you happy. If you are a bird, sing! and if you are a lion, roar! Be what you are and live the way you were meant to live, not how others think you „should“ live. 🙂

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