Opportunity (Five Minute Friday)

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This week, I am determined to get the Five Minute Friday post written before the last minute to post it on Thursday. I have been mulling over the prompt for the week since Friday night trying to figure out what I had to say about it. What I came up with is that opportunity is what you make of it.

I am forever telling anyone who will listen what a wonderful thing our local public library is. I have also said for many years that ANYone can learn with a library card in a cardboard box. You don’t need a computer, a fancy place to live and a top-notch school. If you want to learn, you will find a way to do it. There is a free education waiting at the local library and all you need is a library card. Well, that and the ability to read, I suppose. When I think of the thousands of books I have devoured over the years by using my library card and all the money those books would have cost if I had to buy them, I likely could have bought a new car with the money I had saved by checking them out.

It isn’t just books that the library has offered up over the years. When the kids were little, they loved the VHS tape of “Corduroy” the little bear who was found in the department store and taken home by the little girl who loved him. There was also the oh, so useful cassette tape, “Slumberland”, that would put the kids to sleep if they were still awake after their first choice of tape was over. There were music CDs and then movies and whole seasons of tv shows to binge watch on DVDs. Now they offer up free courses online, audiobooks, ebooks, streaming video and so much more. They regularly offer the ability to read entire articles from Consumer Reports to help me do the research needed to decide which major appliance brand and model is the best fit for our home. They offer free classes on more subjects than I could study in a lifetime. They even offer language courses. So you see with something as small as a library card, even if you lived in a cardboard box in an alley somewhere, you have the opportunity to learn as much as you want. They even offer a place to learn to read if that isn’t a skill you already possess. So the opportunity is there, I hope you will take the time to take advantage of all your local library has to offer.

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Opportunity
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

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