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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 #1094022 added July 24, 2025 at 1:16pm
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Overwhelmed? Is There a Solution?
Prompt:
How can you find relief when you're feeling overwhelmed?
Write about this in your Blog entry today.
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My first reaction to this prompt was: "Don't get overwhelmed!"
Easier to say than do, right? Well, yours truly was overwhelmed last week over the most trivial thing, which its solution took four days. Granted, it was the last drop that caused the flood.
So who am I to tell anyone what to do! I can tell you my immediate action, though. I put my mind into something totally different than the thing in question, even though its worry kept popping up. This happens to me, even when I am doing several different things at the same time.
Come to think of it, maybe I should go the opposite way. Instead of forcing myself not to think about the main event that overwhelmed me, I could handle the problems differently by taking a deep breath and meeting the main problem head on. Trying different and unusual ways to solve some of the problems could have been another solution, too.
Then, it might just have helped to write down all that overwhelmed me and to meet the main problem--I mean that last drop that caused the spill--head on. Also, maybe I could do something I really like, just to veer my mind to another direction. In my case, it's a word puzzle or anything to do with words, which I do often, anyway.
Then, just suppose those things that overwhelmed me went on and on. It happens, and believe me, I can get overwhelmed over and over again.
So, even if rarely, I ask for help with either the problems or my feelings about them. Then, if the problems and situations aren't something I can do anything about, I reevaluate the situation and let stuff be. Sometimes, things have a way of solving themselves; at other instances, with the passage of time, they are forgotten or minimized, and then at the end, that they even existed doesn't matter anymore.
Still, I have to tell me and everyone else the same thing I wrote at the beginning of this entry: Just Don't Get Overwhelmed!
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