This is not my curriculum vitae but these are ten events that have changed the way I think about life. This is very short and easy to read. Ten are completely true. One is a lie. Your mission is to find the lie so we can get rid of it. Write the number you think is a lie and tell me why in the comments. I was challenged to do this post by @insideoutlet. I will share 0.5 SBD to the first comment that has the correct answer. Please do not upvote your comments.
- When I was eight years old, twelve teenagers jumped out of the street to take my Schwinn Predator BMX bicycle in Cicero Chicago. When I told them my dad will be angry they let me go.
- My brother and I invited our hippie parents to church when I was 9.
- I quit high school at 16, entered college and was kicked out of college at 17.
- I finished a bottle of Tequila with two friends and blacked out. When I woke up I found my two friends in jail.
- I kissed a girl on a train and the next time I saw her she was in the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- I slid naked down an olive oil water slide during the “Fruit Olympics” on Solidarity Night in our dormitory.
- I sold a public meter parking space for $20 on South Michigan Avenue in front of Soldier’s Field right before a professional football game. I pretended to back out and when another car came I asked for gas money before I could leave.
- I spent the summer in Cite Soleil Haiti teaching kids in an orphanage and putting skin lotion on AID’s patients in the Mother Theresa’s hospice.
- I cut mice tails and dissolved them to measure RNA fragments on electrophoresis to test the effectiveness of the tumor suppressor gene P53.
- I bought a SAAB and totaled it within 30 days after purchase.
- I preach a gospel message each Sunday in a small church in Seoul Korea.
Chose one and write why you chose it in the comments.
Original Poetry @mineopoly
Get Rid of the Lie
Billions in the world are connected at a network node
Not a line of circuits but a junction of heart
The node is a junction of 7.6 Billion unique interactions
Each life carries an electric charge that no electrometer can record.
Conglomerates of molecules greet with Pauling smiles
Stories lost in cordial conversations not meaning to appall.
The inner node is insulated in a ceramic porcelain of lies.
I laugh at the futility of making a story when the truth is ten times more interesting.
Where have you been? Where are you going?
Where did you come from?
What made you who you are?
Throw away the lie. It doesn’t exist.
No one knows what you know.
No one has been where you have been.
No one has seen what you have seen.
Move on and enjoy the life you have while it is here.
Don’t spend a minute being something you are not.
Now that the Coulomb distance between me and you has decreased,
Get rid of the lie and live in the truth.
I hope you don’t hate physics after reading my poem. Maybe you can understand why I became an English teacher and not a scientist. This is my 11th poem in the Steemitschool poetry competition.(Steemitschool Discord)
Verse of the Day/ John 8:31-32
"Jesus said, 'If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Mineopoly Quote:
I'm free. How about you?
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