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 |   Second blog -- answers to an ocean of prompts |
 "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. |
| “Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.”~ Leigh Bardugo Agree or Disagree? --- I don’t think I agree with “liking the taste” of suffering. Why do we have to like suffering unless we are masochists? Rotten things happen to people and as a result they suffer. We all suffer at one time or another because life is hard, mostly due its nature of sudden changeability. On the other hand, in time, we learn to accept the rotten stuff and, in time, we find or devise ways to handle similar misfortunes. In that sense, such a suffering becomes a teacher. Pessimists claim that life is filled with suffering all the time. Although in our worst moments, we tend to agree with that viewpoint, we find that due to our expectancy from life in general, or a specific dream, or the love of a person, we have set ourselves up to suffer if we look analytically into what really caused us to suffer. To some extent, life can become a container of suffering in many ways and types. If we expect something from anything or anyone and a storm hits that thing or a person, we suffer, be it physical or mental or both. We may even suffer watching someone else suffer. On the negative side, being human, then, we may lower ourselves by putting the blame on something or someone else, so we wouldn’t feel responsible for our own suffering. This is not, in my opinion, the right way to handle suffering as it leads to revenge cloaked under the term “justice,” through which we make our misplaced revenge justifiable. Again, in my opinion, instead of giving in to suffering and the negativity that stems from it, wouldn’t it be better to learn from the experience and to try to redirect our attention to more positive things in life, such as enjoying nature, creating something, or soothing other people’s hurts? This way, we may gain appreciation, sensitivity, and knowledge of life that fills us with gentleness, compassion, and a deep concern for other beings. This way our suffering will have some meaning. |
| Prompt: Love. Home. Joy. Use these words in today's Blog entry. ----- More and more each day, I am finding out that love is the only rainbow life brings on our homes after the rain and the storms. It shines on our children, our loved ones, friends and acquaintances, and even people we hear about or those we are in touch with through the internet. Love kindles our fires in the hearth, grants us our hopes and dreams, and lets us find joy in the commonest things, making us feel we are so much more than beasts that depend only on the satisfaction of their earthly bodies. Love builds every home, creates beauty by chiseling statues, painting artworks, or writing masterpieces. Better yet, it does away with our selfish fears and lets us listen to the noblest and greatest urgings of our hearts. What a glorious world love can create once we overcome our fears! Love is the magician that turns mere mortals into angels and enchants those molded of common clay, no matter what their rank and station may be in a society. It is a fact that we may be separated from those we love here on earth due to our human mortality, but at the end, all we do for their love or the kinds of love we feel for all that is earthly may turn into the love for the Creator and His Heaven. Now, what’s better than that? |
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