Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Janice and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are:

1.prefer  2.myth  3.common  4.category  5.store  6.image

and/or:

1.flower  2.saintly  3.stormy  4.sheep  5.bank  6.face

Here is my story:

I prefer to not put people into any type of category, unless it is necessary to establish age, for instance infant, child, teenager, adult, elderly. Each of these gives a mental image of what a person might look like: a chubby-cheeked face with toothless grin for the baby, a lined or wrinkled face for the elderly perhaps. Some teenagers and young adults may have saintly faces, though they may not actually be saintly in behaviour. You can’t bank on looks being true to inner nature.

It has been common in the past, and may still be true now, that those with less favorable features, scruffy or even dirty in appearance are thought to be “bad” people, certainly this has been true in movies, with such characters being out and about on dark and stormy nights, slinking in and out of this or that store stealing, or selling stolen goods.

Skin colour is also used as category, with people being classed as different just because they have a different colour. Yet under that skin, they are the same as the rest of us. They might be larger or smaller, but they have the same organs and bodily functions as every other human.

The prettiest people are often compared to flowers, “as sweet as a rose”, while those who blindly follow others may be referred to as “sheep”. Being made “in God’s image” is the biggest myth of all, since no one has ever been 100% sure what (or who) God was or is. And does he/she/it even exist?