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: What was your worst summer job? What was your best summer job?
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Summer jobs, especially for teens, enhance the sense of belonging as active members of society and boost their self-esteem as individuals. They also teach the management of money, no matter on how small a scale.
As for me, all my summer jobs were centered around tutoring. I was pretty good in school. One classmate’s younger sister was having trouble with a few of her subjects. After I tutored her during the summer so she could take the make-up exams later, she passed every one of them and with good to great grades. After that, lots of people brought their kids to me. I didn’t have to work anywhere else until I finished school. I also had a stint with working in the library part time one summer. Nothing was bad or too good about all these jobs. I enjoyed them as they were rather cushy, and I learned a thing or two while doing them.
I kinda wish, though, I would have taken other jobs like a sales clerk, fast-food worker, etc. I would learn about and understand the business world better. Possibly as the result of that, I am terrible at selling anything. In fact, selling scares me. I, therefore, encouraged my kids to work in different places during their formative years, and one of them turned out to be very good with sales of any kind in an ethical way.
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