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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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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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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.
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
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Prompt: French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) said, ““Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.”
What is your interpretation of her words?
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To put in other words, I think she meant, in general, not to let anything negative become worse or bigger because of our actions and the way we interpret evil.
In particular, if we take apart how we address each item in anything negative, we have to start with the way we focus on the issue at hand. That is, to deal with difficulties that actually confront us, and not the side issues that spring from them or any related issues that happened in the past. Anything imaginary or irrelevant needs to be deleted from the immediate focus.
Another point is not to give in to temptation, especially the temptation of hurting oneself physically and /or emotionally out of regret or guilt feelings. Self-immolation amplifies whatever is nasty.
Another temptation can be to dominate others by using the idea of protecting them or making them feel responsible for what happened. And yet, another one could be the temptation of perversity, which fosters the idea of 'if I am hurt, so will I hurt the others'.
How we act when we come face to face with evil or anything nasty is very important. What is real and has actually happened is secondary to our judgment of it. We need to be wary of what’s subjective inside our minds, all the time.
This quote shows Simone Weil’s exceptional compassion and concern for the well-being of others. She died from TB in 1943 while helping the French Underground during World War II. Her life story is that of a mystic and a godly humanitarian being.
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