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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 #925202 added December 11, 2017 at 7:15pm Restrictions: None
When a Worry is Legitimate...
Prompt: Can a legitimate worry motivate a person toward accomplishment? If yes, how?
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I think, maybe, if there is something that can be done about the thing I may be worrying about; that is if the worry is truly a legitimate one. On this subject, I can only talk for myself. Worrying in itself is a useless act, but can we ever help not to do it? I don’t think so.
Yet, if I worry enough but not too much, I prepare for the coming disaster or party or get together or the rule of an elected official I don’t like. As a Florida resident, I know well about preparedness. When Irma was about to hit us this year, I prepared the house as well as I could with all the information I had. The hurricane ended up sliding west somewhat and almost missed us. Most of my preparations were for nothing, but I am so thankful for that. I’d rather be prepared for anything than not. If I hadn’t worried just enough and had left everything to chance, the result would have been the same, but what if the hurricane hadn’t gone to the west? The thing is, with hurricanes, you never know. They can change course within hours while the preparation for them takes several days.
A worry, if it leads to problem identification is a legitimate one. In the face of a problem, if we don’t take action, our anxiety level will rise higher. If I just worry and do nothing, that will be me standing still and twiddling my thumbs, but if I act on it, I am at least doing something about the situation.
On the other hand, there are other kinds of worry--legitimate worries, too—that we can’t do much about. For example, if an asteroid hits my hometown suddenly, there is little to nothing I can do. This means, for the worry to work for a person’s favor, it has to have the time and knowledge on its side.
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