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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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#955820 added April 4, 2019 at 10:12pm
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Passions and Interests
Prompt: "Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." Julia Child Write your views on this quote.

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Oh well, I felt like I am listening to a high school commencement speech. I am surprised that Julia Child would come up with such a one-sided thought because aside from her cooking, she did so many different things in her life, some of them very important.

As much as the quote sounds quixotic and idealistic, it rarely works in real life because life is so much richer than one single interest to be passionate about.

Then there is that clashing of the words. “Interest” has the idea of some curiosity that is ephemeral and passing, while a passion has a lure that is consistent, all enclosing, and addicted. We may have several interests at any one time, but passion is that one thing you delve into and can’t/won’t get out of because you put your everything in it.

As for me, I like my tiny and varying interests. My passion, if I can call it that, is for literature and the arts, which hasn’t changed in my rather longish life.




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