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Thank you everyone who jumped into last week’s Sandbox Undone and also the Bonus Sandbox Friends. I thought this week’s challenge sounded familiar, but in looking back through the titles I didn’t see where Roberta Allen had used it before.
This is a pretty confrontive prompt in my opinion. It will be interesting to see how honest I feel I can be. 😮 After all, no one wants to make themselves DELIBERATELY vulnerable!
What makes you feel vulnerable?
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As always, remember to include the link to this post on YOUR blog post. Or if your response isn’t overly long, feel free to leave it in the comment section below. And please feel free to interpret the prompt however you wish: memoirs, poems, pictures, etc.
If you would like to see the previous prompts, they’re listed in the menu at the top of the blog in The Sandbox Writing Challenge. But please feel free to just jump in wherever we are at the moment! After all, the prompts are really for YOU to get to know YOURSELF. (Posts from past prompts you wish to tackle will always be added to the current week’s challenge page.)
So if you don’t mind BEING vulnerable, what is IT or the THINGS that make you feel vulnerable?
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Picture Credit: training.isopharm.co.uk
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Metalflowermaker’s post (Amanuensis Sobriquet-Reverie) — Mother, may I?
Linda’s post (Spiritual Dragonfly) — I AM WORTHY!!
Lori’s post (As The Fates Would Have It) — Vulnerable
Calen’s post (Impromptu Promptlings) — Vulnerability and the fine art of making friends…
Fimnora’s post (Quantum Hermit) — Defenseless
Karen’s comment (A Thousand Finds) — see comment below
Jane’s comment (Making it write) — see comment below
bcostello2016 (The Journey of Growing Older) — Vulnerability
S.Thomas Summers (Writing With Some Ink And A Hammer) — Looking Glass
Calen’s extra post (Impromptu Promptlings) — Second Thoughts on Vulnerability
Colette’s post (The Wishing Well) — Vulnerability
Kelly’s comment (honestme363) — see comment below
Shannon’s comment (Survival Skills aka Low Expectations) — see comment below
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Colette’s post (The Wishing Well) — Sandbox Writing Challenge 24
Impromptu Promptlings 
Aging makes me feel vulnerable because I have always had such a strong body. Physical limitations. I’m starting to feel a slowing in my pace when I walk. I have to consciously raise my shoulders and my head at times. Why can’t we appreciate youth when we are in the thick of it?
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‘Cause we’re too busy thinking we’re different than everyone else and we’ll never grow old? 😮
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Here’s my effort. Thanks for the inspiration.
https://inkhammer.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/looking-glass/
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Sigh…
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I don’t think I want to write a post about this. Hearing the phone ring, getting a text, the doorbell ringing, a letter in the post, (even though there is no reason to be afraid of receiving letters) having to leave my flat, running out of essentials, (because it means I have to go outside) using the communal laundry room, taking out the garbage, having to see the doctor, being asked how I am by someone in the street – all of those things make me feel vulnerable. Even seeing my family and friends makes me feel vulnerable. I want to go outside and tidy up the garden, but I can’t. Now I’ve written this list I need to do something about it, but I don’t know how.
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Why not start by “listing” under each item you said all the reasons that thing makes you feel that way? Hearing the phone ring: harbinger of bad news, someone requiring you to DO something, etc. The see what those lists dictate you should do next. They might tell you?
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That sounds like a sensible plan. Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel able to carry it out, but right now…
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I don’t really want to write a whole blog post about it, but my distractibility, absent-mindedness, introversion, and slow cognitive processing speed make me feel vulnerable. I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 40; I compensated as a kid with high IQ and managed to do well in school in spite of it. Even now, with increased awareness, people don’t think I could have ADHD because I’m smart, I have a PhD, etc.
I know I’m smart; I’m a deep thinker, I’m thorough, and I’m conscientious. But I’m not quick or sharp, and I don’t come across as anything special when you first meet me. I’m more of an acquired taste. That mismatch between the expectations people have of a “smart” person, and what I can actually accomplish, makes me feel vulnerable to being put down, underestimated, and dismissed.
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That’s a pretty honest look at it. Must have felt like a huge mountain for you to climb all these years. I admire your honesty AND your successful dealing with it!
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Bugger! I was half way through typing my response and I deleted it! Story of my vulnerability at the moment. Deleted most of my images so have to now work through to restore them – grrrrrrrr!!! And a list of other more or less frustrating not knowingnesses. I don’t like the not knowings – but I WILL learn and persevere. While I’m in Blogging U 201 and restoring images, I will keep my Sandbox responses short and sweet probably 🙂
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VERY understandable. Been through that class! I get it. 😀 We’ll take whatever we can get from you, Raili!
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Thanks 🙂
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I don’t know anymore, everything makes me vulnerable, not being able to drive anymore, fear of falling, fear of loss, my over active guilt complex. I wrote this then saw your challenge. https://metalflowermaker.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/mother-may-i/
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Blogging! Being that I am such a private person, it amazes me that I am here. My hands are sometimes shaky when I hit publish and I am still chewing on my lips about some posts in my drafts. It helps when I feel comfortable with the people (like here). And I ignore the fact that everyone can read my responses.
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Hey Kelly! For some reason your last couple comments got put into the Spam folder. Found them just now. I’ll have to keep a closer eye on it. Donna over at Homemade Naturally has been having problems, too. Let me know if anymore of your comments refuse to show up on here. The other one was on the one about the cup.
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Thanks Cheryl. I contacted WP and I think they might have fixed it.
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Geez… How’d you get them to answer you? I asked two questions of support weeks ago and I’ve not gotten one answer to either. It’s really frustrating. Are you using the support forum or what?
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I was on my app. Their reply was instantaneous. On Monday they emailed me and asked me to fill out a form for Askismet. Are you having trouble too? I did contact Askismet directly too.
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Hm… Can you get that app for a tablet or a Chromebook do you know?
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I am pretty sure. I just downloaded it from google play. The reader is a bit faulty. It only loads so many posts, but one click and you are in.:)
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Ok. Thanks for the info, hon.
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You’re welcome. Have yourself a great day 🙂
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