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 are some of your favourite blog entries you have written? I want to hear about them.
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The blog entries I like writing the most are the ones that aren’t about me. Most of them are about writing in some form or shape, and a good number of them are in my older blog "Off the Cuff / My Other Journal" / Although I like to put something of me in each entry, I like the entries that address the more universal themes than the boring me.
Having said that, I can't single out any one entry that is a favorite, and for that matter, any one poem, story, novel, or article that I have written. I guess I don’t deem any one thing a favorite.
Now, going back to July, because of GOT, I didn’t write any entries, but I did keep the prompts in a mail folder. So every now and then, I’ll pick a prompt I missed and write for it, in addition to the present day’s prompt entry.
This is from Day 858 July 14, 2016, sent by Megan.
Prompt: Collect moments, not things. Do you agree?
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I sure do. Happiness is in the content of the moment-to-moment experiences. Even intrinsically valuable things carry a happy memory, which holds an experience in its essence.
Does anyone ever recall what they were wearing or what they owned during a first-time experience, say the first kiss, the first day at school, the first child’s birth? We always recall the experience first, don't we? Experiences always bring more happiness than do possessions, unless it is a possession one has waited and yearned for.
I know some shopaholics who have fallen into the habit of collecting stuff, but then, those things are what they are, just stuff. Although during the purchase, they may have felt some satisfaction, this satisfaction lasts only a short while. Even an exciting purchase finds its way to Goodwill or to a second-hand shop if no treasured memory is attached to it, but the experiences are recalled for a very long time to come.
By spending time and money on experiences that enhance our lives rather than create clutter, we shed positivity and happiness into the world and inside ourselves. It makes me happy that the younger generation has figured out this fact better than the earlier generations. No wonder I like them so much! |
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