Welcome to Qurator's Mischievous Mondays!
This will be a weekly competition that we will be hosting every Monday. We want to see a little more engagement and fun when it comes to some of our competitions so this will be a simpler and shorter competition. Easy to enter, but maybe not so easy to win. ;) This competition will be similar to the Monday Missions we had a long time ago, but instead of writing posts to enter we will now consider only the comments and answers on this blog as your entry to win.
Why Mischievous?
We all could use a little fun in our lives. We would even say that we deserve it, let loose a little and have a go at making everyone laugh or think a little, even if it is a little over the top or pure silliness. Go all out and let your creative juices flow.
Something That Sounds Easy
RULES
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Explain It Like a Conspiracy
1st Prize - 30% Upvote
@dusan.stojkov
2nd Prize - 25% Upvote
@proto26
3rd Prize - 20% Upvote
@davidke20
4th Prize - 15% Upvote
@hatdogsensei
5th Prize - 10% Upvote
@onemanonewrite
Congrats to the winners!
Something that sounds easy but is not.For example,my friend once says: “It’s easy for you. You work in a school, your wife cooks lunch, your mother-in-law watches the kids. You talk on the phone all day with your colleague, you go to competitions and paid business trips… basically, you do nothing.”
If only he knew the other side of the story.
The kids are small, and we don’t have anyone to help us. No grandparents willing to step in. My mother passed away. My mother-in-law is lazy and can’t wait to get rid of us, and my father-in-law works abroad — we see him maybe three times a year.
My wife often runs off to the room with our two-year-old daughter to breastfeed, and they’re gone for hours, while I’m standing in front of a sink full of dirty dishes, with my five-year-old son asking me to make him something to eat.
In the morning, because of the kids waking up at the worst possible moment — right when I’m about to leave — I sometimes end up being late for work. And when that happens, my principal is always coming up with new ideas about how next year he might give even those few classes I have to some older colleague.
And maybe that’s why I sometimes spend so much time on the phone… with him.
We also have my wife’s seventeen-year-old son, who isn’t really interested in washing dishes, vacuuming, or even cleaning his own room. School doesn’t interest him much either.
So yeah, my friend… you said it well. I’m “enjoying life,” right?
Maybe at night.
Because I’ve practically stopped sleeping. The little one wakes up often, so that short time when both kids are finally asleep is the only time I have — for writing blog posts. My wife usually isn’t in the mood to hang out, she’s exhausted.
So much for your idea of “easy things” in life...
Thank you for your patience and for taking the time to read about my everyday struggles. If you have similar experiences, feel free to write about them in your next blog or send me a message.
Something that sounds easy but is not is planting vegetables in the garden.
It is a very pleasant thing to do: place seeds in a seedbed and then keep an eye on them so that they are not damaged in the germination process.
Then, constant surveillance so that common pests do not reach it and if they do, which at some point they do, remove them.
Do not place chemicals on the plants but everything organic, prepared at home.
Wait until they bloom, the flowers are pollinated, and if they do not achieve pollination, do it ourselves manually; waiting for it to be loaded with fruit, and then harvesting it. It's not easy, but it's something exciting to do.
Long live the garden at home!
I knew you've probably heard of the story of a dad encourage his son to get 0 marks on ancient philosophy if he's gonna quit that subject. The only condition is, the son need to complete all the multi-choice questions without skipping. The son laughed and thought it was gonna be easy, but ended up he's getting some marks everytime he tries very hard to pick the wrong answer. He had to study very hard just to find out all the wrong answers, and by the time he's successfully getting a perfect 0 marks exam paper. The dad said, congratulations son. You've managed to grind through the entire book of ancient philosophy. Feel free to quit now, or you can get good grades on your next exam.
Give up, can be the easiest way out. But, let's think of the consequences. If dealing with the consequences is hard enough, why not pickup the responsibility and solve the puzzle, before it become a "problem". If you think getting all wrong is easy, try getting half way there.
Something That Sounds Easy But really isn’t is when jumping to the water from a cliff that is just 3 feet tall. The height may be something that is not very high to be afraid from but the idea off jumping from a cliff to the water may activated the fear response of the body not to do the jump and I experienced it during my first attempt on jumping from a cliff towards the water and I can say that it is very scary at the start but the overall experience is great