Live

The hardest thing about life is living it. I feel like I don't belong in this life and it's breaking me down. I feel pain but no one is listening. I feel like crying but no one is helping me. It's not hard to make friends but it's hard to keep them interested in your boring life. It's not hard to get a lover but it's hard to learn to love yourself before they love you back. I don't wanna leave this world early but it feels like I'm on the edge.

Challenge

Challenge of the Week XXXIX

You took your smartphone and moved back to 1984. For the sake of the plot, your phone works perfectly, but a condition of your year-long relocation in time is no one can see it, or know about it. You are to report back to 2023 the contrasts: With people, music, overall humanity, anything. Send texts, pics, videos, undetected. The elite group with whom you work has cracked the code of time travel and intervention, and while the race to colonize Mars rages on, your group has decided to instead go back to 1984 to reset the world, so to speak. Before that power leaves a seamless, yet indelible mark on the future, the group has to decide if it's for the better, or to go ahead and let it all run the course it's on, and start looking skyward for continuation. Make it funny, make it deep, make it dark, make it yours. Entry with the most likes takes the $25 wire. Go.

Nissa

“We are gonna reset the world.”

"The world right? You wanna reset the world?"

"That's correct! Why?"

"Look at the stuff we have done and created! Phones, Computers, languages? Hell, we have literally created a way to travel across the goddamn ocean!"

"And the bad. You can't have the good without the bad. It's like Yin and Yang."

"I know that. But you can't do that! You can't just reset the world!"

"Prove it."

"Huh?"

"I took you back to 1984 in the US for pictures. So, prove I can't reset the world with those pictures"

"...Micheal Jackson. He is the King of Pop. He has influenced everyone in the entire world. He is a literal superstar. Music in the 80s was iconic. Thriller, Take on Me, Material Girl. All of these wonderful singers have literally emerged from the 80s How about fashion? I know that the 80s was a...strange time but people like fashion and the newer generation is bringing it back. The equality. We have evolved from that. We care about women's rights. We want people of color to have equal rights. Queer people don't have to hide their love anymore."

"I see your point. We have evolved but that's not enough for everyone to be happy. People are getting killed for their skin color, for what they believe."

"Humans aren't gonna see eye to eye not matter what universe. We are made with opinions that you might not like. So it's best to ignore those people and continue to make the world a better place. Let them be unhappy."

Challenge

Challenge of the Week

Alright, you brilliant beasts. To kick off the first $25 Weekly Challenge, we're keeping it easy and exact. Suuuure..... Most of us have been in this spot, asked the question, so we'll frame a setting. Here goes. You're on a first date with a person you met online. There's attraction there, but you're still trying to figure out if the chemistry is physical AND mental. The person across the table asks you what kind of writing you do, and when you give them a genre, they say, in one way or another, "Describe your writing to me." This week's challenge is to answer that question here. The winner will be decided by likes on this one.

Nissa

“Describe your writing”

"My writing is not complicated. It doesn't need to be analyzed by the English teacher who go crazy after one line of reading. My writing is suppose to make you feel something, anything. Sometimes, it doesn't at all. My writing varies. I might write a masterpiece while I'm upset or a mess when I'm happy. Writing anything is complicated but reading it is the best part."