Blog Calendar
    October     ►
SMTWTFS
  
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Archive RSS
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. Kiya's gift. I love it!
Everyday Canvas
#957523 added April 25, 2019 at 1:16pm
Restrictions: None
Perfection, What If?
Prompt: "If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."
Beyoncé
Do you agree with this statement?


----

If everything were to be perfect, we wouldn’t have fiction or poetry, as those things and almost all of the arts depend on conflict and imperfection. Never mind our smugness itself, the absence of the arts alone would give life a bland taste and outlook. Following along the same type of reasoning, can we call a bland life perfect?

Which makes me think about perfection. Just what is perfect? According to Wiki, ( God knows from where they got their definition) “Perfection is a state, variously, of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence.”

This means where there is perfection, there is no room for change or improvement. That would be so boring, and the fact that it would be boring would make it imperfect. A catch-22 situation, isn’t it?

I think it is a better idea to accept that we live in a world that is perfect in its imperfections because it changes, improves, or deteriorates, and this makes us work with those imperfections to produce our fiction, poetry, and all arts, even when we complain of the difficulties those imperfection throw our way.


© Copyright 2019 Joy-the Harpy Witch (UN: joycag at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Joy-the Harpy Witch has granted InkSpot.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
... powered by: Writing.Com
Online Writing Portfolio * Creative Writing Online