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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 #868640 added December 16, 2015 at 1:22am Restrictions: None
Self-Respect
Prompt: "Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it." Audrey Hepburn Do you agree?
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People will believe what they want to believe no matter how you live; however, living a just, moral life has its own advantages, first of which is self-respect. Self-respect holds the key to achieving a peace of mind which everyone needs; however, we must not mix self-respect with success, as self-respect is not dependent on success because there will be failures to live with in any person’s life.
Self-respect is not what we see in ourselves when compared to others either, for there will be people always better or worse than us in any way. With self-respect, we like and accept ourselves because of who we are and not because of what we can or cannot do.
If we are persons with true self-respect, others’ compliments, thoughts, or even derision will not matter much. Others’ evaluation of us won’t make a positive or negative effect, at least not too deeply, since we know who we are and where we stand.
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