Title: Mirage
Source: 100 Word Wednesday: Week 77
Word count: 100 words
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She should enjoy the sunset, but the ice in her drink melted hours ago. She should enjoy the trip, but the passion in her life evaporated years ago. Her days comprised completing items on the list. The purpose of the trip: relax, recharge. Check and check move on to the next one.
Days turned to years filled with rushing and running, keeping her schedule and adding to the unrelenting list. No time to lose, no excuses for dropping the ball. No time to relax, recharge. A life lived in quiet tragedy; a flurry of activity defining existence, concealing an illusion.
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Jo Hawk 
a very compact story but tells of a very detailed journey. sometimes the need for structure keeps the mind from collapsing totally.
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I kept thinking about the quote “The unexamined life is not worth living” as I wrote this.
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i haven’t read that quote before, that’s very true, we seldom scrutinize ourselves with sincerity, or maybe it’s because we can only do it from just our side of the story.
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It is an old one; attributed to Socrates.
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