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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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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
January 22, 2017 at 8:39pm January 22, 2017 at 8:39pm
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PROMPT: When have you ever had to apologize for something you know in your heart you were wrong about? How did you do it, and how were you received?
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If I know 100% that I have been wrong, I apologize immediately, regardless of how it is received. This comes easily to me because of the result of my conditioning because, during my formative years, my tough-cookie mother made me apologize not once but many times for the littlest things I did. Was she right to do that? This is up for debate. I think she wasn’t, but I am prejudiced toward my own direction.
As to the results of my apologies, people sometimes say there isn’t anything to apologize for. Other times, they accept it. Rarely, if ever, have I received a negative reaction; therefore, my mother’s conditioning might have given some positive results.
"I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits." ~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
Is there something you avoid because you're afraid once you start you won't be able to stop?
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In fact, I avoid many things because I am interested in too many things, and if I start working with and obsessing over any one of them, I’ll neglect what’s important to me. I know I run the risk of neglecting other stuff when I concentrate on any one thing. So, after years and years of watching how I tend to behave, I am limiting myself to a limited number of interests.
As to Fitzgerald’s quote, I wouldn’t mind "kissing" or, in other words, being nice to people especially if it will become a habit because people have to come first before anything.
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