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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.
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Everyday Canvas #927650 added January 23, 2018 at 6:10pm Restrictions: None
Re-assessing Beliefs and Taught Things
Prompt: Since I am reading Adrienne Rich at the moment, here’s a quote. “Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.” This quote blew me off. If what we have been taught, believed, witnessed and agreed with were, in fact, assumptions, how in the world can we get to know our real selves? Your thoughts?
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Just imagine! What if anything and everything we believed about ourselves and our environment were to be fake, made-up, and false? I guess I wouldn’t be here and who I am would be a falsetto, which would mean my name, my family background, what I've been taught, what I believe in, my love for the people in my life, my love for reading, writing, and other things like that…The list is endless.
Surely, I don’t believe my life is full of assumptions. But thinking about those things tosses me into a different reality as if I were suddenly thrown into the wild waters of an alien planet. This also means if I ever attempt to write a sci-fi story, I know where to start.
Then, there is also something to thinking about the what-ifs of our established or taught beliefs. If we all truly did examine those by taking our present-day issues one by one, we’d get rid of our preconceived ideas, false presumptions and, most important of all, our biases. That wouldn't be so bad, don't you think!
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