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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
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
December 5, 2014 at 12:58pm December 5, 2014 at 12:58pm
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Prompt: What do you do when you're down to bring yourself a little joy?
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At this time in my life, I don’t feel down much, unless there is a serious reason like death. Even if there is something not to my liking, I don’t fret over it; I guess, with time, I learned how to roll with the punches.
On the other hand, should something happen to make me feel bad, annoyed, or irritated, my immediate ways of tackling it can be, to:
• Do something that would take my mind of off the incident: Clean something, arrange a closet or a kitchen cupboard, or sew while listening to a book on tape.
• Walk around or go watch nature or people, like at the beach or the town.
• Take photos of whatever I find in my immediate surroundings
• Call one of my cousins and talk, even if I don’t tell them what’s bugging me.
• Read. I read anyway, but reading something that occupies my mind like a how-to book or a book with suspense helps more.
• Watch the antics of babies, kittens, puppies and other animals on YouTube.
• Go find a few foreign-language TV stations online or on Youtube and watch. I studied a few languages, each to some degree, and watching people use them entertains me.
• Write about it, although writing sometimes makes it worse for me, but if it is a long-running annoyance with history of its own, then writing helps.
Once I take care of the immediate annoyance, to get rid of its leftovers, I try to focus on what truly matters to me, and that other nasty stuff becomes as unimportant as an unrecognizable dot in my universe. Another thing I might do, once I’ve calmed down, is to count my blessings for what I have, for the people in my life, and what I have accomplished.
A few decades ago, when I had faced more incidents and events to get me down, I discovered the self-hypnosis tapes and meditation. I strongly believe they helped me greatly. Yet, when I suggested them to somebody who was dealing with a persistent annoyance in her life, she wasn’t open to it, saying her problem was special and unique.
I think we are all human beings, and no problem can be one of a kind; although, it may have variations in it from person to person. In addition, if one nurtures her problem and gives it more importance than it deserves, that problem grows bigger. Cultivate a weed, and it’ll take over your flower bed.
In short, perspective may be everything, but we can make use of some crutches, too, until we gain that perspective.
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