What If We Imagined It?
hive-148441·@bluemoon·
0.000 HBDWhat If We Imagined It?
<center> 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.  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.  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.  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...  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.  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!  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!*  ##### *Did you know that a microblogging platform will soon be launched in Hive? Short posts of a few dozen words, with or without a photo, about your thoughts, daily activities, photography, travel, cryptocurrencies, food, and dozens of other topics.* ##### *Here is something similar **[HERE](https://noise.cash/post/0j520jrfgg08)** It's a social platform like Twitter, but with the BIG difference that you get paid in crypto to post.* *You can see **[My Profile Here](https://noise.cash/u/bluemoon)** to convince yourself that it's worth consuming few minutes daily. I forgot to mention that everything is free and registration is extremely simple.*    </center>
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