prompts for may 2026

What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?

This prompt made me realize how very unspontaneous I am. Also, if you say the word “spontaneous” over and over, it’s a very fun word.

I know that there were times when I was younger, and the kids were younger, where I packed up the car and we went out of town for a few days, mostly unplanned.

Do we all get less spontaneous as we age? Or should I blame the dog and the cat? You can’t be as spontaneous, at least around leaving, when you have pets that you have to make plans for.

Also, I’ve turned into one of those people who doesn’t like to differ from my norm very much. I’m kind of, what’s the word, superstitious maybe(?), about veering off from the usual.

For example, even for small things like going uptown for groceries, I like to take my usual route. Because why? Well I don’t want to die in a head on collision and the news story (as though it would make the news) involve my family saying ‘she always went THIS way to go uptown but unfortunately today she went THAT way uptown and found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time’.

In other words, had I gone uptown via the usual streets, I’d still be here today.

Weird right?