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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 #892784 added September 23, 2016 at 12:00pm
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Success and Failure
Prompt: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."~ Winston Churchill
Agree or Disagree? Discuss a recent success or failure in your own life. How did you handle it?
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I do agree. Those who are the real winners are the ones who keep at it, regardless of the results. Whatever we keep at, we’ll get some results. Those results may not be what we wish for or what is deemed to be acceptable by the common understanding, but we may be winners for trying it and can benefit from the side advantages of our work.
Talking about failure, most of the time, not the failure itself but our fear of it keeps us back. We have to realize that failure is only a delay but not defeat, and no great success was ever achieved without some failure somewhere. That failure may be epic or small, but it is a necessary stepping stone to achieving our goals. If failure won’t work, it is because of the stubbornness of a person against change. It takes backbone to work toward what we want regardless of a string of failures because failure is a teacher and our real mistake could be not learning from it.
As to success, we all want it somehow, but it is not the key to happiness. Also, it is the end of the line. It is the end of the action. Haven’t most of us felt empty, not knowing what to do next, after reaching a goal and basking in its glory? Luckily for those of us who are writers, each writing project is a beginning from scratch. Even when we are successful, we spring into action from the first step all over again, akin to the movie The Groundhog Day.
I had some successes and some failures in my life, but the failures came about because either I didn’t apply myself fully or I was forced into doing something I didn’t want to do wholeheartedly. Any success that came my way came about because I was fully immersed in the project and enjoyed the ride while doing it. I think I handle failures better than successes because I usually look back and analyze where I went wrong or where the project didn’t work out. With successes, some people who like hero worship may thwart a person’s self-image and too much of adoration. Then, even if that result of the success strokes the ego, it can become annoying in the long run.
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