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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. |
| “I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Discuss this quote in your blog and how it relates to you. ---- in a nutshell, Louisa May Alcott, the heroine-author of my early teens, means to say in a nutshell, “Live your life well. You can do it!” Most of us, in our earliest years, use a mental image of a perfect life for ourselves. Still for most of us tricks of fate or life have a way of fooling around with us and messing up that image. What Alcott is saying that she knows how it can be done; we have to take charge and persevere. Sounds so easy, right? Nope. What she says feels almost condescending to me as I feel I am being talked down to. Life is not that easy. Just read about the camps in World War II. Some of us have unspeakable difficulties that cloud our lives and we may face troubles that affect the way we look at and handle things. Enough said. On the other hand, if you have an average beginning in life, why not try to make your life to become the best one for you? A clear, acute vision and strong perseverance are what is needed. Maybe a few people can achieve using that key to open door of their castle in the air. With a few alterations, if I may add. Of course, in Little Women, Jo was the heroine and what we, who were big readers at that time, wanted to emulate her. Although Jo came out okay, I am not too sure she reached her (internal) dream 100%, either. Because nothing is perfect. Sometimes along the way, we feel complete for a while and learn to smile at life. If that may be all we can hope for, so be it. That is still a success. |
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