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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. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#1084411 added February 26, 2025 at 12:28pm
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Our Greatest Weakness: Giving Up
Prompt:
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to success is to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
Do you give up easily? why do you think some people quit at the beginning of a mission or project? And/or What is Edison trying to tell us?


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Oh well, who has the stamina and the will power that Thomas Edison had! He had perseverance all right. If I remember correctly, he failed thousands of times before his famous light-bulb happened.

As for me, no, I don't give up easily, but I don't also keep on whipping a dead horse, either, which shows why I am not an Edison. *Laugh*

Edison suggests failure doesn't come from challenges themselves but when we stop trying. Giving up, to him, is abandonment. To me, not giving up a something which doesn't work after a good amount of tries is self-torture.

On the other hand, it is true that throughout our human history, the most successful people are those who didn't give up. They may have been, scientists, athletes, leaders or inventors. And I'm glad they didn't give up or else, we wouldn't have today's technology.

Or come to think of it, maybe they should take it more slowly. The latest findings and adaptations to technologies are unbelievable. Then, imagine me and the latest technologies that surfaced with ai! No, you can't possibly imagine! *Laugh*

Despite myself, I do believe in the importance of resilience and a strong mindset. Strength, most of the time, becomes persistence, and quitting early is giving up too easily. And I hope, we do get more and better inventions. Especially those that close the gap between the incompetence of humans and their companies and businesses to handle and adapt to new ways and technologies.



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