What If We Imagined It?

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What if we imagined that we are new to this platform and don't know what a challenge is? Really, what is a challenge? A challenge is a challenge, what more can we say? I can say that it is an aid to find a topic to write about more easily, especially when we happen to be lacking imagination.

I don't know about others but when I have to write something, the first thing that comes to my mind is all the challenges I have written for and I easily find one to help me start the day. I'm envious of those who write freely, about whatever comes to mind, without resorting to help. However, if you want to write daily, or almost daily, it's hard to find something interesting every time.

I'm among the somewhat old-timers here, with over four years of almost daily posting, and I remember that we in this seniority category have been helped a lot by these inspiration generators called challenges.

One of the challenges I've been writing most for, a challenge that happens on Fridays, is #marketfriday, introduced here by @dswigle. As the name suggests, it's about the market but not just the concept of a food market, as I thought at first when I thought the topic would be exhausted quickly... how much can you write about a market?

In fact, this challenge refers to anything that can be bought or sold and, in this case, the range of topics becomes immense. This is proven by the fact that #marketfriday has lasted for so many years but also by the way @dswigle supports her favorite challenge.

I, who didn't understand from the beginning what could be written in this challenge, both due to lack of mind and lesser-known English, and posted for a long time only about food markets, until I exhausted the topic. Now I'd like to remember a bit of that way of writing. That's pretty much how my posts were back then...

Neighborhood market

I live in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Bucharest in Romania. A neighborhood of houses with courtyards and gardens and with inhabitants who came from the country and lived like in the country. That's why the market is also like a country one.

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In fact, it looks like the country thirty years ago, in the meantime, Romania has transformed from a communist country to a capitalist country. Wild and free capitalism, with no rules, in the beginning, meaning that everyone did what they wanted, built as they wanted and the result was houses and buildings of very bad taste. So is our neighborhood market. February 16th Market. That's the name of the market, probably a communist anniversary of I don't know which strike or the labor movement.

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Such a place, where everything is bought and sold, looks like a collection of stalls, small shops, and a few halls. It doesn't look very good, the cleanliness is not up to the highest standards, but it has a great advantage. Among the hundreds of vendors, there are a few real farmers, who come with their vegetables and fruit, grown organically, that is without fertilizers and chemicals.

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Most sellers have goods taken from the wholesale warehouses, goods brought in from imports. This means industrially grown vegetables and fruit of poor quality and no freshness, tasteless but good looking. Fortunately, I grew up in the country and know how to recognize a good quality fruit or vegetable...

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Besides, going to this market many times, I have made friends with a few vendors who have the best merchandise. As I said, I have written many times about this market and published many photos. I rely a lot on photos in my blogs, they are the backbone on which I hang the text. The problem that led to abandoning posts about the market was the difficulty with which I can photograph there. Sellers are very suspicious of those who photograph, probably out of fear, because they must have reasons, probably don't pay taxes or whatever.

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I had to shoot as unobtrusively and on the run as possible and this greatly affected the quality of the photo. Eventually, I gave up.

Now I understand how limitless are the topics I can choose. It's enough to refer to something that can be bought or sold and I fit the topic and that increases the imagination and uniqueness of many posts. That's how I'm referring to this challenge from now on, now I just wanted to go back in time and remember the beginnings.

An unwritten but desired rule is to put a flower at the end of the Friday post. As a reverence to the one who thought of this challenge and imposed it here, our friend Denise!

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A small zinnia grew in a crack in the asphalt on the street leading to the market.

For #marketfriday and #alwaysaflower, both proposed by @dswigle!

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You still do some of the best markets ever! #MarketFriday appreciates all the trouble you go through to get those pictures! You are not the only one who has trouble getting pictures. Funny enough, most of those that can't get many pictures are from former Soviet Bloc countries. That probably doesn't surprise you.

I think we have all evolved, including myself as to what we consider a market, including a little more of the different cultures in our posts. I think it adds to the post in different ways. I love to see/hear how your country has changed or even why they don't like pictures. Here, they don't like them if they think you are going to copy something. Such as art or something that may be craft-related. I guess I can understand that. You are so fortunate to live outside of a major city, and yet, still have a down-home relationship with some of the vendors or even the farmers. You have an inside connection! That is something we all look for! Someone to point out what is better this week or where the best price is.

Food is such an important part of my family's day. We all come together, after work after play, after being away all day, to sit and enjoy - break bread together and enjoy each other's company. That is one of the best parts of my day. This was a great post for many reasons, Dan. You address the new people, perhaps wondering about where/how/what to post, and take them through your own personal process. Well done and honestly, it was really well done. Thank you for that and for your compliments always. I must admit, you are one of my favorite posters in the challenge! You never forget to end with a flower! #alwaysaflower Now that you have scared everyone off, thinking they MUST post a flower. :) We, maybe only one, right?

I love the concept of #MarketFriday and how our cultures differ and then again, how much they are alike. Rituals, Festivals, food, architecture, even your language/languages. Along with the fact of what is normal for where you live? These are unwritten rules that rule our social behaviors. I see this as allowing for increased tolerance between cultures and nations, and opportunities to come together on an even playing ground. A strong culture can be beneficial to a country as it promotes unity, especially during a crisis, peaceful debate, and open dialogue. I had hoped that posting here will familiarize you with the world around you just a little bit more. Viewing it from a more personal level as opposed to the newsworthy level gives me a better understanding of the people and a view that is often not seen on television. Sometimes, it seems like I learn more on some social media about a certain incident than what the news tells me.

I appreciate the amazing support given to #MarketFriday! Thank you! Your participation adds a piece to your world, and I have to say, people are interested in seeing it. This entire challenge has opened up the world to me and so many others. Thank you again for being a part of all this! I am so happy to see you here! I hope you have a fabulous day! Hive on!!

Fridays are all about the #MarketFriday Challenge! Looking to take part in it? Here is how: I put this in for those reading your post, so they will know the rules.

Rules of the Road

  1. Go to the market, or anywhere that you pay money for a service.
    Take pictures! Be creative!
  2. Tell us a little bit about the market or the event. What brought you there? What did you buy? How much did it cost?
  3. Post the picture(s) Of course, you should tell a little bit about the ones you post
  4. Use the MarketFriday Community Platform to post #hive-196308 (this is not required, but appreciated)
  5. Drop the link into the MarketFriday comment section so I can find it
  6. Following me and reblogging the post so more see it would be appreciated !! Not a rule, just appreciated, more vision for more views on your posts!
  7. You must put #MarketFriday by @dswigle somewhere on your post. If you don't and someone reads it, there is nothing to tie #MarketFriday to that post.
  8. Please only one post each week. Believe it not, I run out of voting power if you put in many more than that.

As always, please remember! #MarketFriday loves you!

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I start now even with no modesty and say that I know I am one of your favorites in this challenge. Quite normal, as I am one of the few who have been posting since the beginning of this challenge and who are still posting now, of course, each with certain breaks imposed by the events in our lives. Thanks for your appreciation!

I understand, reading your posts, that your family is united, that eating meals together is always a special event, even if it is daily. This is where a curiosity of mine arises, even if I tell you what it's about, please don't answer me if this is not to be revealed. I wonder how you can keep your family together all the time in the situation that you moved so often, to so many places.

Yes, I also wrote this post as an encouragement for new members to join the challenge but it is pointless as few to none read it. Of course, this is my fault because I don't have time to interact and thus generate a reaction.

I'm still thinking of a topic for next Friday, I hope to find something that will please me.

Have a week as a beautiful fall to you, Denise!

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You have been posting since almost the beginning and there are actually a couple of you which surprised me that there are still so many from the beginning, but I think you and the old guy or the oldest. Of course not in a ditch but the length of time being here. Just in case you were wondering.

I can understand your confusion with reading that my family is united in eating meals oh, it's always a special event because isn't that what family is all about? I have no problem with you asking at all. How can I keep my family together all the time because I move so often? 95% of the time they were young enough to need to stay with me and it was only in here's where they went off to college they moved. But I still had at least one at home at all times. The time comes where my son got married and his wife is in medical school oh, so they're still in school. My daughters live home now that they are out of school although one is going back to school it will be a local University to pursue an upper-level degree. The other lives home because she is single and apartments are very expensive here in the Washington DC area. There is absolutely no reason or shame in her living home has the house is big and she is a viable member of society. I have had my parents here for 5 and 6 months at a time when my dad wasn't so well. I am one of those weird people that believe in multi-generational living. There's something comforting about living among your family and I actually don't mind not living with my family but I love having them here if it works for them. If I move again things will be different because they are older and can take care of themselves.

I think people read it but I think the people are much busier now and I can tell that he's in myself and I'm reading less of what's out there because I just don't have time just at this moment. I'm hoping things will get better and of course, in the wintertime, everybody reads more! Thanks again, Dan! @bluemoon

I realize not everyone lives this way or even wants to. We all have separate lives at times, but, we do like to sit and share a meal together. And dessert!

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Yeah, old guy and me. I'm honored by the company, I think I should change my name to old-blue-moon too!

I'm not surprised or intrigued by the fact that you live together for several generations, I really think it's very pleasant, especially if there is understanding and harmony between you. The fact that tradition makes houses so big in the US helps that happen. In Romania, the houses are much smaller and then the children have to leave when they start a family, of course, those who can do that. Those who stay to live together are not happy about it.

I just saw it as a movie, a change of home to another state where everyone from grandparents to children could go and I found it difficult to make that happen. Thanks for telling me what it's like at your house.
It's really nice and eating together is so enjoyable! For me, it only happens at Christmas or Easter, or birthdays.

I've kind of been forgotten by my colleagues here because I don't have much time to read, comment, or reply to comments. I do try to reply though but it happens with great delay.

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Actually, the platform has been glitchy, so I don't think the commenting is as much. I am so mad at myself. There was a wonderful, long, thoughtful comment you wrote and I put it up on the computer so I could answer it properly. The computer restarted at night and everything up disappeared and now I cannot find it. I think it must have been over seven days now.

I am so sorry. I do remember it and wanted to respond. :( Forgive me.

We like generational living. I grew up with my grandparents and a few cousins too. My aunt was widowed early in life (Vietnam War) and her kids grew up in our house. There were 9 kids of my parents and When my brother got married, he and his wife, but, my dad built a guest house on the property that was rather nice and so, they were here too. I am sure some people think it is weird, but, it just seems normal to me. We all get along, although, not every single day is without words somewhere,, we have all learned to make sacrifices for peace or do something to change it.

You and old guy! LOL Yes. That is true.

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