Five Minute Friday: Broken

 Five Minute Friday was started by Lisa-Jo Baker.  She posts a writing prompt every Friday & hundreds of people write for five minutes straight on that prompt.  They then link their posts to her blog. Voila!  You have a community of writers sharing their ideas!  This is such a great idea!  Today is my first Five Minute Friday & I'm still getting used to the idea of just free-writing for five minutes.  I didn't get much, but here it is:

Prompt: Broken

There are many things that can be broken... homes, hearts, spirits.  I am lucky to have come from an unbroken home, though that couldn’t protect me from broken hearts or broken spirits.  But I believe that things which are broken can always be repaired, you just have to have faith.  A broken heart is repaired by your next love.  A broken spirit is repaired by a comforting word or touch.  I am blessed to have so many people in my life to help me repair broken hearts & spirits.  Enough cannot be said for having a group of people who will love & support you even when it seems that all is lost.  A few years ago I believed that I was broken, everything seemed to be going downhill.  It’s amazing how quickly things can turn around.

Note: There is a ton of traffic at the Five Minute Friday blog, so linking to it may be difficult today.

What If...

In his memoir, On Writing, Stephen King opines that any work (specifically his) can be boiled down to one question...what if?  From his work...what if you were stuck in a car with a rabid dog outside?  If you're Stephen King, you have Cujo.  For the rest of us, it works for every piece of literature that we read.  You can boil it down to the simple question...what if?  What if the person you loved unconditionally asked the unthinkable?  What if you could trade your life for someone else's?  What would you give up for "true love"?  How far would you go to chase a dream?  The questions are limitless, and many of us will never have the opportunity ask, much less answer, them.  Which is why I find literature so amazing.  For a short period of time, we get to experience the unthinkable, we get to look into lives that we can't imagine, and we get to step outside ourselves and ask...what if?