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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Everyday Canvas
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
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Prompt: "My imagination is a twisted place."
Taylor Swift
Write about this quote in your Blog entry today.
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She would say that, wouldn't she! I believe she said it in jest. Although she might be exaggerating, there might be several ways an imagination can be twisted.
That sort of a twist can come from addiction to fantasy and compulsive anything else. Dark fantasies would do it very well, if the imagination can come up with disturbing or violent scenarios or the macabre. I know this happens because I used to help a mental health professional write up his reports on his patients.
The problem with twisted imaginations are that they magnify the already existing paranoia, fear, and delusions, so much so that a blurred line takes shape between reality and fantasy. Such a person possibly dwells on past events or future scenarios, and putting so much mental effort to such things can lead to distorted memories.
Then, even an innocent thing like daydreaming can be against a person when it becomes excessive. As such, anything excessive may have a negative effect on productivity and social relationships. In that way, it hinders personal growth for it leads a person into a world of fantasy and not a pleasant one, either.
In short, imagination is a powerful tool for creative people, but if twisted and misused, it has very bad effects on mental health and well-being of a person.
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