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Istijlál (Majesty), 11 Qudrat (Power) 176 B.E. - Thursday, November 14, 2019
DAY 2551: Do you look for the best in a situation or prepare for the worst? Not An Either/Or Question This isn't an either/or question. A person can hope for and pray for the best, while preparing for the worsts. The reason for doing both is that stuff happens, and Murphy's Law--"If anything can go wrong, it will"3--kicks in when you least expect it. Therefore, by preparing for the worst, you will have a back-up plan. It's true that the worst you prepare for probably won't happen, but something will go wrong and your back-up plan won't go to waste.
Day 2049: "A poem is never finished, just abandoned." Paul Valeri How do you feel about this quote? To Abandon or To Rewrite To abandon or to rewrite? That is the question. Is it better to abandon the poem, let it lay, as is-- pretending that it is finished-- or to rewrite and change the entire ode. The poet's only salvation is to save the rewrites under such titles as Poem's Nave Draft 1. 2, so on and so forth. Footnotes |
Istijlál (Majesty), 11 Qudrat (Power) 176 B.E. - Thursday, November 14, 2019
PROMPT: November 14th - Think back to a moment in your life when you were faced with making a difficult choice. (Which city to move to, which college to attend, what to ask Santa for, etc) How might your life be different if you had made a different choice than the one you did? No! No! No! I do not want to know how my life would be different if I had made different decisions. I do not want to go back (even if I could) and change the decisions I made in the pasts. The decisions I made in the past created the person I am today. I am just beginning to like the person I am, and I do not want to go back and start the process over again. It takes too long to retrace my steps over the shards of memory, and across the petrified tears of yesterday. It takes too long to follow paths covered with the dust of history, littered with scraps of illusions, and strewn with the bones of vain imaginings. |