Daily Writing Prompt Thread Thingy It'll Be Fun

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

Awesome!

Well then, in honor of my 5,000th post, here's a prompt (if anyone's interested):

Your character is performing a task/action that it feels like they've done 5,000 times.

Spoiler

"Less than a year later and we're back at the beginning already. Back in a place you were so determined to get out and stay out of. Back where you feel like you're always going to be so you're starting to wonder if it's worth leaving..."

"I can't do this over and over. I don't have the strength to do this again."

"Since when have you ever believed you needed your own strength?"

"I- I'm not sure I'm allowed that strength this time."

"You know that's a lie. Stop settling for the lies and get out before you lose yourself."

 

[thecatumbrella]

I've been reading Machiavelli for my Political Philosophy and Ideology class and I think this one would be interesting
"It is safer to feared than loved."

I haven't forgotten about this! I have two ideas that have been floating around in my head, and I'm trying to decide which one to sit down and write out.

I love this prompt!

 

[Amer]

I haven't forgotten about this! I have two ideas that have been floating around in my head, and I'm trying to decide which one to sit down and write out.

I love this prompt!

That's good to hear!
"It is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails." Niccolo Machiavelli.
He said it is best to be both but fear is safer than love if one must choose. A lot of people misattribute this quote to him "It is better to be feared than loved." He didn't say that at all.

 

[Eroica]

That's good to hear!
"It is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails." Niccolo Machiavelli.
He said it is best to be both but fear is safer than love if one must choose. A lot of people misattribute this quote to him "It is better to be feared than loved." He didn't say that at all.

Yet both sound like things a dictator would say

 

[thecatumbrella]

"It is safer to feared than loved."

Spoiler

I'm a child, lying in my bed.
I saw the face of death today. A boy, younger than me.
I felt nothing for this stranger. I only thought of you.
One day you would not be with me.
I cried and cried. I loved you that much.

I'm a teen, sitting on my bed.
I hear you in the other room. You say the shape of me is trouble.
That I run around and cause you strife. All I do is wait at home.
Your thumb can't hold me here forever.
I cried and cried. I hated your lies.

I'm a woman now, and finally free.
A struggle that took years to break. Knowing what I had to lose.
I feel the tremble in your voice. The tables have been turned.
Was it better to be feared than loved?
I will not cry. I've conquered my vice.