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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 #871263 added January 19, 2016 at 10:48pm Restrictions: None
Following Your Bliss versus Hoping for It
Prompt: "Know your own happiness. Wait for nothing but patience-or give it a more fascinating name. Call it hope." Sense and Sensibility Do you agree?
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Although this quote is by the romance genre’s empress and supreme ruler, I have to step back and examine her words the way I understand them.
I like knowing my own happiness, yes, but waiting for it and hoping for it is not my modus operandi; however, working toward it is.
Hope is for the likes of Pandora as the last resort, and as the last resort, it has a dubiousness factor in it that is closer to deficiency and failure. It is something like thinking: I am waiting for this fantastic thing, which may or may not happen at all.
If “know your own happiness” means ‘follow your bliss’, I am all for it, as I am all for working toward my bliss, but just hoping is something else. I can’t deal with the side of hope that hints at some possible negativity. Hoping alone is probably the last resort before failing.
If I am waiting for something to happen, I must also be working toward it, and I must be sure it will happen or else. Even while waiting in line at the supermarket, I know my turn will come. I don’t hope for it. If the line is too long, I search for another line, or else, eventually, I may even search for another supermarket which opens several more cash registers. I don’t have the kind of patience that leaves my happiness just to that iffy hope.
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