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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Are you a better sport as an adult or more competitive than you were as a child?
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I wasn’t competitive at all as a child, possibly because of having no siblings. I learned competition from the society as I grew up. As an adult, I am still not very competitive, if alone, but put me in a team, I turn into a tiger, surprising even myself. I don’t know why this is so with me. Is it because I want the work done or is it because I like the excitement of it? Possibly it is both.
Yet, it is said that competition brings out the best in output but the worst in people. In addition, it has long and short term negative effects on the losers, who might label themselves as failures.
Even so, those negatives can be handled with TLC, urging people into friendships with the rivals and lifting the moods of those who lose in a race by stroking their egos and pointing out to them the good things they did during the challenge.
I think the good side of all competition should be encouraged, also, because of the drive from within an individual to accomplish a goal, to bring out the best in people, and help everyone to better understand themselves. After all, what is wrong with being a competitive person if that person is ambitious, achievement-oriented with leadership qualities, and has a healthy level of self-esteem while he or she shows respect to his or her rivals?
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