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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 #903807 added February 2, 2017 at 5:55pm Restrictions: None
Change
Prompt: What are some things about yourself you hope never change?
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Wanting something not to change doesn't really work in life. Change is always inevitable and in the forecast, but what I hope for is a change for the positive and improved things about me. Consistency and resilience are a couple of those things I consciously built up through life. I hope they never diminish, and if they change, I hope they do for the better.
I heard about the importance of resilience from Miss Lindsay (RIP) our high school Home-Ec teacher. She told us to manage our personal vulnerabilities with intelligence, to prepare ourselves to withstand the impact of any negative situation, event, or bodily mishap in life, and not to dwell on what feels offensive but either to accept what we can accept or try to change things for the positive.
Although, right now, I have squeezed in a nutshell what she tried to instill in us, building resilience isn’t all that easy. It took me a lifetime to work on it, and I haven’t even completed it, yet.
Dogged consistency without giving up is what helps one to build resilience. Plus, the side benefit of resilience and consistency is patience, which I haven’t fully mastered, either.
Still, I keep trying at fixing myself, no matter what the outcome.
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