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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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Everyday Canvas #849392 added May 12, 2015 at 6:58pm
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The Most Difficult Task
Prompt: What is the most difficult task for you in living your life--day to day, or if you wish, in general?
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As to actual everyday happenings, getting everything done with extra time left for what I like to do has become very difficult for me. There are just not enough hours in a day, and in my age I am not as fast as I used to be. I also get irked when unexpected stuff that needs to be taken care of or that takes immediate priority pops up; this leaves me no choice but to back out from everything I have planned to do earlier.
In general, in life, I hate the task of handling obnoxious people, especially those with prejudices of any kind and those who think they are so intelligent or smart and above everyone else. Having a high IQ or having accomplished a thing or two or belonging to one religion or another or being an atheist or anything else doesn’t put anyone above everyone.
For example, a very long time ago, although his general tone was positive, someone wrote this to me in an e-mail: “Most of the WdC people are below my intelligence level, although WdC is a good site.” I ignored that remark because that was all I could do. Yet, I have heard similar statements from some people in real life in other instances. I find handling such people to be very difficult. Other kinds of obnoxious people are those who operate with the idea of, “my way or no way.” I understand it when they do it on their own turf, but in someone else’s house, neighborhood, or country, their insistence on such behavior is ugly, and I find it to be very difficult to deal with those types.
My husband and some friends say I handle people well, in general. Yet, even if I can handle obnoxious ones usually by ignoring them or answering them gently, this still bothers me, because then, my ignoring or my gentleness makes me get mad at myself. 
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