Day 13: The Me, Myself and I Prompt

THE ME, MYSELF AND I PROMPT

Believe in yourself. Know your self worth. This is what we often hear from our families and friends everytime we confide in them. Write a poem about you. Have you been compared to someone else? How do you motivate yourself?

Letter from me in Apr 2021 to me in Apr 2019

Dear P, you are not going to believe this,

But right now, you are just in pure bliss.

Next year, you will be making banana bread,

While the world around you will be falling dead.

I know, I know, this sounds very very dumb.

But you just have to see what I have become.

I now happily wear my best pyjamas to work,

And consider a visit to the supermarket a perk.

We stopped going to office a while back,

The whole day is a back to back zoom attack.

You know, the zoom you used rarely?

Well, soon you will be off that barely.

You need to sit down for the next part.

Me and you are now a world apart.

You hate running and all things exercise,

I now run everyday under the open skies.

You are probably thinking you got the wrong letter,

But trust me, you are doing so much better.

Next year, everything will seem like nightmares

I would strongly recommend you start your prayers.

And before I end, one word of advise,

In 2020, to everyone be nice.

Everyone's going through the same shit as you

Being kind and nice is the least you can do.

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