50 WORDS
Stimulus, No Space
Thrifty Words Theme Challenge #17: Stimulus
Published in
Dec 22, 2020
She’d always remember her daughter, laughing aloud and skipping beside her, holding tight to her hand.
Stopped at the pedestrian crossing, the child sees her father emerge from the subway, pulls free, calling out: “Daddy!”
“NOOOOO!”
Her scream doesn’t stop the gap between her running child and oncoming lorry closing.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor Frankl
Thanks to Jonica Bradley for this week’s challenge:
