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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.
August 21, 2018 at 5:20pm August 21, 2018 at 5:20pm
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Prompt: Which feels more important, how much one is loved or how much one is able to love?
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Emotionally and spiritually, I am more inclined to go with how much one is able to love, but then, the degree that one is loved in childhood does affect that person’s lifelong relationships with other people and his or her ability to show and give love.
This makes me believe that one has to be loved first in order to be able to love...unless one is a Godsend saint or any other higher being.
Then, even if one hasn’t been the recipient of love in the earliest years, he or she may be able to revise and adjust his or her behavior differently. A betrayed infant can become a loving person because love can be learned, too. I think both being loved and having the ability to love cause and support each other.
Still, just because I can be starry-eyed, how much one is able to love feels more important to me.
Prompt: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler
Your thoughts, please. 
Yes, as of now, we have many illiterates with college degrees earned 40-50 years ago, and because they couldn’t keep up with the electronic revolution, they either badmouth it or, if they are lucky, their grandchildren save them. I am in that age group, too, but I try a lot to keep up with stuff and at least become a good-enough user, as I am not that lucky to have grandchildren to save me.
I think there is a formula for this: Literacy = learning - unlearning +relearning
This whole thing has to do with mental conditioning. If we think we cannot unlearn, we cannot relearn when things change. Consequently, we are subjected to become trapped in the ways of the past that limit today’s opportunities for us. Especially when everyone is doing things in the new ways, if we get stuck with the old ways, we’ll never progress or get things done.
Unlearning and relearning constitute a process that takes flight when we question everything we know and work to make things better, faster, and more practical. Then, if such a change has already happened, we’d better learn how to work with it. If we don’t keep up with the changes, we’ll fall too far behind, and it will be as if we’re using messenger pigeons instead of e-mails and other electronic messaging.
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