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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:55
Do you have a suggestion for a #TellYourStory Talk Tab prompt?
One very cool feature is that we will attribute the prompt to you, and as you can see in this image, so when someone uses the prompt in the app from the Talk tab, you will automatically get invited to that swell. So this is a great way for you to see everyone who is using your prompt. So if this sounds fun and you want to take part, please go ahead and hit reply with your prompt suggestion. Just two things to keep in mind
And the middle part of your swell will be to define or to discuss in some way how you went from where you used to be up to where you hope to be. So, hopefully that makes sense. And hopefully we can get chosen to be featured. And hopefully, it swell be something great. So talk to you all soon. Bye
I have a two part question, and that is, will the daily prompt expand at some point beyond the tell your story hashtag? And if so, is there a rough timeline for when
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 1:13
And it's not something that people can see. It's not something they know about you even hanging out with you, but it's something you innately know about yourself that has stayed true every day of your life. I hope that's not too vague. I don't want to go too far to define it because I want people to define it in their own way. So that's my prompt. What's the one element that has stayed true throughout your life until now that is authentically you?
It's all Susi. I've. I've always had this thing I've carried around with me my entire life. I'm currently 38 years old. The only way I can describe things that I've carried in my childhood. This is a hard one. This is a good writing prompt. Oh, wow. Um, let me see here. Well, I have discovered over the course of the year, this past year, that I am a relentless human being
Hi seeking plum. Thanks for your question. In terms of will we use other hashtags in the daily doctor prawn? We do keep on experimenting. Last month we had a couple of other ones beyond tell your story. We had a couple of voice european ones. There was an swell as well with travel photo
And so really, that thing, quote unquote, could be just about anything from human behavior or human ideas, interactions, nature, the universe, plants, animals, whatever it might be. But broadening it, our view, I guess you could say, beyond a single person, and the next one is just quite general, is what are you curious about today? The next one, what recent experience really reminded you of your humanness, for good or bad, and how did you feel about it?
So my story, prompt suggestion or my offering to this topic is the topic of how does the universe or God speak to you? I don't think you need to have faith or believe in any higher power, but you have to appreciate the serendipity and just the synchronicities of living day to day life. To think that the universe doesn't present opportunities to you doesn't reassure you in times of struggle and need
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 4:54
So ever since I was a baby and you see the picture of me in the crib smiling by myself, I was told by my ancestors, because you know how when you get older, you go, what was I like as a kid? And they Ali said, you were weird. You were like, weird because you didn't want to be carried a lot. If somebody carried you a lot, you cried to be put down
That's my suggestion, and I think it's pretty cool. So I don't know, it's something to got me thinking. I've got to answer it. All right, thank you. Bye
Missy Jones
@lemrjane · 0:46
I believe there's gods that may be in space, and they're waiting for us to come back home because I believe that's where we all came from, and our gods is waiting on us to come back up there to be with the stars and
I love your faith, darling. I love your faith in anything outside of yourself. And I want you to know that you were 100% right. And when it's all said and done, we are going to join the universe in absolute, positive harmony. You heard it here from me, Rooster Collins
Kelsee B. Hankins
@kelsee422 · 0:44
Because I think different people would say different things for their best gift they've ever received. And I love to know what lights someone up when they receive a present like that. So that should be our topic
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 2:32
Because of course, if you're a parent of small children, you are the giver and they are the receivers until they become adults and are capable of giving. But I'm talking about adult relationships. Could be friendships, could be marriage, could be just hanging out. But eventually I have found out that relationships are built on reciprocation. Or they can fall apart from lack of
Jeremiah Myer
@Jeremiah73 · 4:55
The jewish folks, the Baha'I folks, the muslim folks, the christian folks, it's all the same God. And, and yet some prayers are perhaps being answered and other prayers aren't. And really it's probably got to do with who has the bigger firepower. But yeah, that's some of my thoughts. Thanks. Have a good day. Blessings to you. Bye
But I want you to appreciate the fact that all of the gods or spiritual entities or entities that you pray to are all representations of one thing, and that's the teachings of my lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is simply a representation of the perfect man. If you go back and read the Bible and you read temple on the mount, his message was very clear, and that is to operate in a love with compassion or operate in a world with compassion and love
Jeremiah Myer
@Jeremiah73 · 4:35
And you asked the question of how God speaks to us, and I don't want to drift too far away from that because that's a great question and it deserves to be highlighted in this. Well, but I would really enjoy talking to you about things of a spiritual nature
No, I'm just trying to get my text recognized. Like you said, it's a sacred text. It's a spiritual text. It's a guide to life. But like you said, there are many ancient spiritual guiding texts, one of which being the Tao Te Ching. And it's my personal opinion that Lao Tzu was another manifestation of whatever that energy is of the universe. That's like, I need to manifest. Uh, we needed Lao Tzu before the Old Testament
But they also had issues because they were close. They were kind of like frenemies. But I think they had a regard for each other. And Hemingway, it was very critical of other authors, but for some reason, he really dug F. Scott's Fitzgerald. So, yeah,
And I knew that she had all the time, very deliberately made decisions to help rear me and bring me up to the best of her ability. And so there is a moment that I remember very specifically where she'd made a decision for me. And at the age of 17, I asked my mom to sit down, and we had a conversation, and she nodded her head at the conclusion. And then, of course, you make a decision, you got to have consequences, right?
Jeremiah Myer
@Jeremiah73 · 2:27
Hello. I very much like the hashtag tell your story prompts. And so I would like to offer this one for everyone's consideration. And that would be when was the last time you cried? What was the situation that brought you to tears? Was it the death of a loved one? Or was it just seeing a scene in a very moving movie or reading a passage of poetry? Or listening to a great piece of musical art?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:24
Well, that was fun. Thank you all so much for submitting ideas for prompts to connect our community to great stories. The picture I've posted here shows the schedule of the prompts. Remember that if your name is associated with the prompt, you will be notified when a person replies to that prompt, so make sure you listen in and perhaps reply. And thanks so much for your participation. Let's see how this goes. Bye
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 0:57
You. I don't know if this prompt is still valid, this call out for prompts, but if it is, I was thinking of one today. As a parent, I was a single mom, and I learned some invaluable lessons from my child, so I just kind of wanted to put the prompt out there for parents, because we always think we're teaching our children
Kevin Malone
@KevinMalone · 0:30
Okay. If you had to give one item of your own that you own, that is yours, that will be received by a person on planet Earth, that is totally random. But the choice of the item that you give is yours. You don't know who is going to go towards. But if you had the choice of one item to give to a random stranger, what would it be and why? Thank you
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 1:24
You. Okay, here's one about neighbors. What kind of neighbor are you? When I was a kid, all the kids knew all the neighbors, probably better than the grownups, because kids roamed all over the neighborhood. You know, they weren't afraid to go outside the house, run down the road and play with the other kids. And sometimes the parents would come out and give us treats. So everything was very open
Darrain …
@TheBriefOne · 3:31
Anyway, I love it here. You all are cool people, and this app is so cool. This is like the new Internet. This is the new direct line to authentic interaction. Some of us just don't have time to not give it to you the way it comes out of us directly. That's why I love it here so much. Anyway, hope it helps. And y'all be blessed now. And y'all just are doing an amazing job
Nupur Upadhyaya
@Nupz33 · 0:53
Same with the games, because there are so many games in the world, so if there are certain major ones with leagues and all. So you could maybe start a prompt page for those, just one prompt per game, or maybe just as you guys see fit. But I'd say those two are the top suggestions for me
Hashtag tell your story. Well, this is a great job you guys have done. Swell. You are motivating me to kind of get up and going. Tell us your story is hard. Tell us your story. Go for it. Do it, Cam. You can do this. Why is it so hard? Well, I don't know why the story feels hard. Do any of you ever feel that it feels hard to explain. It feels like no one's going to understand
And these people are you the same people that bleed, eat, fart, do whatever it is they do the same things that you do, but you'll walk around in life scared of these people because you think they're the boss or they're the person that you need to impress to get to where you're going. But they're actually not. They're actually not. They're actually running this race just like you're running this race
Whatever opinion you have, I have my own personal line. I have my own personal line of something that someone might say to me that is unforgivable. Everyone does. I keep mine to myself because I don't want to give anyone that power to say those unforgivable words to me. Should I not be able to forgive them? But, boy, they are specific words. Boy, they are very specific words. And if
