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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 #1099865 added October 22, 2025 at 1:14pm
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On 'People Who Come Into Our Lives'
Prompt:
"People come into our lives for a reason."
Write about this in your Blog entry today.
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I'm not sure if the people we meet and connect to, in any shape or form, were predetermined for an unknown godly reason. Yet, human connections are significant, be it they may be brief or enduring or joyful or painful. All of them add to our growth and understanding in some way.
In my own life, friends have appeared just when I needed support or a teacher (or rather someone acting as a teacher) introduced me to a new way of thinking, or a total stranger's kindness made me happy and restored my belief in humanity. Often, I found out the meaning of what happened in hindsight; that is, after I felt healed or loved or learned something important about life or myself.
Come to think of it, there may be a quiet order in the chaos of our relationships with other people. This may not be predestined but rather holding a potential to awaken something in us. I sense, it may be to help us through a difficult time, to teach us love or betrayal, to inspire creativity, or best yet, to bring out into the open the boundaries we didn't know we needed.
Again, in my case, each person leaves an imprint. That person may be a writer who did or didn't live in my time but what he or she wrote impressed me. As for others, even when our relationships ended,--be it through death, misunderstanding, or any change in locations or interests-- the idea that I had a give-and-take with that person has offered me comfort. In other words, whatever happened at the end didn't erase the meaning of our time together.
Best yet, this saying is positive as it invites gratitude. It encourages me to look beyond things, such as coincidences or misunderstandings, and I end up believing that there might have been a purpose in the relationship.
Then, just maybe, that connection or the short-lived link to each person who has entered and still enters my life may be part of a much larger life lesson, similar to a word in a very long sentence.
That is...if life is a sentence!  
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