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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 #860653 added September 21, 2015 at 5:48pm
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The Most Important Thing
Prompt: The most important thing in your life.
Has it changed over time or has it stayed the same? If you so wish, tell us what it is.
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I hope hellfire and damnation won’t rain down on me for changing “the most important thing for me,” at the drop of a hat. At this very moment, I can say the most important thing is to keep the peace and quiet I have in my life, the status quo so to speak, and to never stop growing as a person.
If it were about a month ago when I overturned the coffee pot on my left hand and burned it, the most important thing then was to have the burn-pain go away and have the hand healed. Now that it’s accomplished, I don’t think about it all that much.
When the dinner I am cooking is late, then the most important thing for me becomes to get dinner on the table as quickly and as edibly as possible. When I am writing anything, finishing what’s spilling out of my fingers on the keyboard in a halfway decent fashion becomes the most important thing in the world, too. Yeah, you may say, “Those are mundane things,” and you would be right, but momentarily, mundane things do become the most important thing in the world.
Yet, my idée fixe for world peace, health and welfare of friends and family, keeping myself and my brain intact, and keeping my personal peace while contributing to life the best way I know how always keeps buzzing in the back of my mind together with the most important thing of that specific moment. What is also important is that I am not the person who runs toward what scares her, but if what I fear shows up in front of me, I usually grab it by the horns. I never want to lose this side of me or other useful sides of me. That too is a most important thing.
In short, I always remodel my thinking and shapeshift, when it comes to certain ideas behind statements like this, although this one was my very own prompt. 
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