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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"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.
David Whyte
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
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Prompt: “There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.”
Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
What are your thoughts on this and do you believe what really happened is more or less important than what we think should have happened?
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I think what happened is more important, most of the time; that is, if we can really validate what really happened. As human memory is faulty and the brain tends to create its own version of reality, what really happened is never too clear, unless it is copied or filmed by a machine, and then, even machines or cameras can distort what is in their sight. Historians also distort the history, no matter how they try.
As to what should have happened, we might say that, for example, instead of the Civil War, peace between North and South should have happened, but this is after the fact and amounts to zilch. The only thing that may be beneficial about the what-should-have-happened is that we can learn from it and try not to separate our nation in two, no matter what takes place.
The same goes for people, for what happens to them, among them. If parents constantly fight and do not try to find a common ground, the family and especially the children will suffer. When families suffer, the neighborhoods, and eventually, the nation may suffer.
In such instances, to focus on and study what should have happened can be more advantageous than repeating or reliving what already occurred.
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