Daily Prompt: What’s the best way to deal with negative thoughts?

Daily writing prompt
What’s the best way to deal with negative thoughts?

Is it just me, or are these WordPress prompts running in circles, cycling the same ten questions but dressed up in different cheap suits like some psych eval designed to pin a label on your soul? Same ten questions, just wearing different masks… the AI algorithm is running a two-bit psychological shakedown to map your personality. I suppose it’s asking too much for it to broaden its posies… then again I suppose most people dislike being asked to ponder deeper thoughts. I can prove that statement by referring you to the millions of selfies posted online every day.

What’s the best way to deal with negative thoughts… punch a clown! Knock him right in his kisser and then while turned away to conceal his tearing eyes, sock him again with a kidney punch. Be sure to hit him hard enough that he’ll be pissin’ blood for a week.

To demonstrate my opening statement that the daily prompts here on wordpress are basically recycled and slightly re-worded like a psychological profiling questionnaire in the Walmart hiring application process, here’s a daily prompt asking basically the exact same question but slightly different on Mach 7th of this year:

POI: I wonder how many folks spin a different yarn because the question is phrased a little differently. How many would actually dig through their own memoirs just to see how their answer to this exact same question has changed over the years? I’ll bet my last nickel that even if you multiplied those folks by a thousand, it still wouldn’t touch the mountain of brainless selfies clogging up the cloud on any given Sunday.

To re-demonstrate my position about the algorithm recycling the same handful of prompts in effort of profiling your thought processes and categorizing your personality type here’s more proof from two identical daily prompts, one from January 15th of this year and the other from two months early in November of 2025:

Just to drive my point home I’ll demonstrate it yet again, observe:

Here’s my beef: unlike the selfie junkies and those vanity-obsessed shklims and shklers and shkleys, I chew on the heavy stuff. I neither dodge nor sugar-coat the truth, even when it drags my own name through the gutter. I do ponder the deeper questions. I don’t waste time scrolling through WordPress; I get my fix watching the shadows play out in the real world, in real time. That’s how I pick up the grit and the grime. It’s why I can connect the dots when they start bleeding together. It’s why I can stitch together a trail of breadcrumbs that others try to sweep away. The random gaggle of turds who’ve commented to my posts that I’m not genius; they’re absolutely right. but you don’t need to be clever to unravel a mystery, you just have to be observant.

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