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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: “Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Is this good advice and do you think it is doable?
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This is really a high and mighty goal to reach, although I believe we all do the best we can to live a life which is at least provides some contentment, somewhere, somehow.
Is it doable? I believe it can be done by some who live in a good place and grow up in a good family and with some luck. This quote wouldn’t work for a person who is fearing for his life in a war zone or those imprisoned in Auschwitz or people who may be in countless dire straits.
The problem with such an advice is that it puts too much pressure on a person’s psyche. It feels as if you have to do all that or else, you have failed somehow. From that point of view, as much as the advice sounds good and it strokes the egos, it is not the best advice ever.
Eleanor Roosevelt was an uplifter of people, especially women, and her preaching this must have been centered in that context. Also, I believe she is referring to ‘success’ as in fame or financial security. While there is nothing wrong with those things, the word success can also be applied to gaining experience and understanding and enjoyment of life.
As writers, here in WdC, almost everyone I read seems to have a natural curiosity and interest in just about everything, and they seem to be gaining understanding and experience in most areas. Are they doing those things fully; who knows? After all, who can measure such successes?
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