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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: "The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life." William Morris
Write anything you want about this this quote.
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Granted, the details of daily life add to, embellish, and enhance the evolutionary steps of the human journey. Granted, taking an interest in every little thing we do and doing it with gusto takes our attention away from the hardships of life.
I certainly agree to paying attention and taking a genuine interest in the details of daily life.
Yet, does this point to the true secret of happiness?
To begin with, I don’t think happiness is such a trifling thing. Yes, during the focusing of my attention on the mundane everyday things, I may be avoiding or covering up some suffering or negativity, but is this really happiness?
To me, happiness is something different. It is something much more complicated and very hard to define. In fact, I don’t think there’s a definition of happiness that is accepted worldwide. Just google “What is happiness?” and you’ll see what I mean. There are so many definitions and such conflicting ideas on what happiness is.
From this point of view, if we can’t even define happiness itself, how can we be sure of its true secret? And doesn’t this make William Morris’s quote a low-grade generalization?
Maybe during the nineteenth century, William Morris’s time, such generalizations involving large concepts were tolerable. I dare think and hope that in our century, we will try to look more closely into what makes us human.
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Prompt: What can be the result or results of trusting a wrong person with an important enough task or hiring a family member who didn’t know enough about the job? Have you ever had such an experience?
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I have never hired a friend or a family member for anything, (I know better!); although, I may have asked them to do something or other for me unofficially.
At times, however, I have trusted a wrong person with an important job, which didn’t fare our well. The thing is, you don’t know how capable a person is even if they have the credentials. Sometimes, the business owner, manager, or the person doing the hiring are desperate because there is no time left to search for the right person, and out of necessity, they hire just anyone even if something inside them tells them not to.
Fact is, no one wants to hire the wrong person for a job because a bad hire drains energy and time, costs money, and may even hurt the reputation of the business. Then, if nothing else, it may lower the morale of the other employees. The best thing to do under such circumstances is to try to reassign or train that employee just to give them another chance.
To avoid employing someone not suitable for the job, it is a good idea to talk it over with the others on the same level as the employer, meaning the triage team. Also, if the hire isn’t working right, an employer shouldn’t hesitate to talk to the others in his team even if it means lowering one’s personal pride.
A good future employee should be a person competent and experienced, and they should be offered what they are worth. Good employees know their stuff, are motivated, and are eager to learn new skills. To find or to recognize all this in a new applicant takes a lot of mental energy. No wonder, it is said that most burnouts in companies belong to the hiring managers!
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Note for writing: A wrong person for a job could make a hilarious short story. Anyone? |
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