prompts for june 2026

What are three things you’re allowed to be bad at without apology?

Anything to do with flipping my body around or over, I can’t do.

Even as a kid I couldn’t do something as simple as a cartwheel.

I was mesmerized by the kids who could do high jump in gym class and for track meets. I recall running up to the bar and the mat and stopping dead in my tracks when I got there, I simply could not talk my body into turning and jumping off the ground. It still seems an impossible feat. It makes no sense in my head.

I’m allowed to be bad with technology too. I’m a gen x’er. I wasn’t born with a smart phone in my hand. We had to learn this stuff, the way you learn math or social studies.

I won’t say I’m terrible with computers, tablets and phones but let’s just say that somehow I only recently discovered Ctrl C/Ctrl V for copy and pasting and it’s changed my life.

Probably another thing I’d get an “F” on in life is the fact that I’m not sensitive enough towards other people. I’m definitely better about it than years prior, I realize it and have been working on it. I’m a bit of a cold fish. I chalk that up to my upbringing. Feelings were not a very big topic or something we even talked about when I was growing up.

It was one of the reasons I fell so madly in love when I was 18 with that 30 year old psychopath, he used to ask me on a daily basis, “are you happy?”. And it was the first time anyone had acknowledged whether I was happy or not. I was like wow, somebody really cares about me. Dumb dumb.