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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Daily Cascade #1110238 added March 9, 2026 at 1:00pm
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Looking
Prompt: Looking
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
Charlotte Bronte
What do you think this quote is about and in what ways does it apply to you?
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Although this quote starts with "Looking forward or backward," its real message is in the idea of looking upward, which to me, suggests hope, faith, and a higher purpose. It means improving oneself, keeping one's values intact, and maintaining a spiritual awareness. So, instead of being trapped by yesterday or worrying about tomorrow, I can lift my thoughts toward growth, gratitude, and meaning.
Yet, even if the quote is keen on the idea of living in the present while keeping positive thoughts, I have to ask, "Why is looking back being looked down upon?"
In my case, I hope I have learned a great deal from my past and I appreciate that. This could be impractical, of course, if looking back produces excess guilt or nostalgia. Well, it doesn't for me. I understand the part where guilt is due, but past is past and I have learned from it. I have learned quite a bit from my own mistakes, in fact. As to nostalgia, what's wrong with it? Best writings come from our remembrances even if we don't actually mention them and talk about them scene by scene, word by word.
Concerning the future, who knows? I'm just too old to worry about it, but I do worry about my country's eagerness in butting into other countries' affairs and getting into wars, if for not myself but for the future of my countrymen and women. I do hope, however, my anxiety will be for nothing and we will all succeed to appreciate this planet that was gifted to us to live in.
Either way, while the past can teach valuable lessons and the future is uncertain, looking up while living in the present is a powerful thought, and I take it as a guide for personal happiness.
In any case, I hope and pray all our tomorrows will lead us toward much loftier thoughts while directing us to better, nobler, and more hopeful times.
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