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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.
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Prompt: I knew who I was when I got up this morning but I must have changed several times since then. Do you ever feel like this?
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I feel like that every day.  I usually wake up groggy. Then I rush around taking care of what needs to be taken care of. Then finally I sit down at the computer with a sigh of relief. Although this is more like a routine, I feel differently at each turn throughout the day.
In other words, what I do and what comes to me from the outside as stimulus receives a response from me, and each response is not a programmed one as it is designed for the event at hand and how I feel about it at that very moment. Mostly, my responses have to do with other occurrences’ and people’s input; therefore, I am a social being. So, since my responses are so changeable, it wouldn’t feel like they are coming from the same robot-person, right?
Even if a robot were made and dressed to be like real humans, it wouldn’t be difficult to tell that the robot is not a human. Robots can exhibit intelligent motions; they can show complex processes and they can be repaired, but they cannot feel and think like the humans. A robot’s make-up is basically metal and electrical. A human is an organic individual and an ever-changing entity, but a robot would always do the same things it is programmed to do.
Maybe contrasting a human being to a robot wasn’t the exact answer to this prompt, but I picked the robot example to show the changeability in a person. I think we humans have so many sides to us with sensitive make-ups and we feel empathy, pity, and other emotions; we also do record and feel the constant change in ourselves, and that may as well translate to feeling like a different person from hour to hour.
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