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Be Fearless... Go To France!

30 Day Blogging Challenge

PROMPT July 14th
If you won a free trip to any foreign country, all expenses paid in your own private jet and had the time to go (and there were no travel restrictions due to a global pandemic *Pthb*), what is the first foreign country you would visit? Who would you bring with you? What would you spend your time doing?

Oh, I love this kind of prompt... the problem is choice. France or Great Britian... both are close. Could I chose both? For this I would pick... France. I think I would bring my friend, Caroline because she inspires me and pushes me to try things outside my immediate comfort zone. She also speaks French and Polish as well as English. She would also love to do the literary things I love to do. Write in cafes, attend the Paris Writer's Workshops and go to some writing retreats around the country. This one is an hour north of Paris and one I would love to go to:
https://www.creativewritingretreat.com/writing-retreat-in-france
This is the hotel:
https://www.abbayedecernay.com/abbaye-des-vaux-de-cernay/
This is the area:
https://www.francethisway.com/tourism/place-map.php

Perhaps after the retreat we could rent a little villa and explore the region even more. I would also want to get into Paris and visit some of my new friends I have met during the virtual 'Really, Set, Write!' sessions. Exploring Paris through their experience would be devine.... as would spending several long, blissful hours in the Shakespeare and Co. Bookshop.

Blog City - Day 2186

Prompt: “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
What are your thoughts on the idea of the fearless feeling powerful?

Fear is the sludge that fills our veins and keeps us immobile, unless we acknowledge the fears and find ways to work around them... moving forward despite their lingering effects. The thing is, if a person was truly fearless, they would be very powerful. There would be no need for them to second guess themselves, they would just strive out into what it was they wanted and take it. How powerful is that. Breathtakingly so, I would say.

One would hope that they had a conscious to keep them from trampling those of us who hesitate. Remember the line - 'he who hesitates is lost'.

A little Google search found me this little gem:
One who cannot come to a decision will suffer for it, as in I couldn't make up my mind, and now the offer has expired—he who hesitates is lost. Although the idea is undoubtedly older, the present wording is a misquotation or an adaptation from Joseph Addison's play Cato (1712): “The woman that deliberates is lost.”

Those without fear would not be hesitating.