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| Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" Day 2529 April 22, 2025 Prompt: Fears and Courage “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis Stevenson Is it always wise to keep fears to ourselves or should we boast about our courage? What would pros and cons be in both these cases?? Coming back from break is always daunting, but especially coming back to a work schedule filled with tense meetings and messy scenarios I have to make sense of. Taking a break over lunch to tackle a few prompts actually brings me a measure of relief, even though its a prompt featuring fears. Let's face it, there seems to be a lot more to be fearful of these days. Where I had hoped for balance and stability, it seems we have uncertainty and volatility. The mainstream media seems to oscillate from one fear-mongering headline to the next and my normally independent resources seem more confused and dismayed than I'd like to admit. In general I try to mitigate my fears for my daughter's sake - especially if they are fears based on situations I can not control like the stock market reactivity or political discontent. I don't see the value in seeding that kind of fear in her. I'd rather she focus on overcoming the fears she can control, like being scared of giving blood or having to deal with medical tests. I want her to discover her courage in the face of those things, and in the space she makes for herself when she moves past those fears. I think most people tend to keep their fears to themselves, and still, I don't know too many people that would boast about their courage either. I think it you are boasting about how brave you are, you are likely trying to convince yourself more than others. Those who are quietly courageous are more sincere maybe. "Blogging Circle of Friends " Day 3814 April 22nd, 2025 What's the best advice a teacher gave you? Did you listen or disregard it? I had, for the most part, great teachers. I had an English teacher in elementary school that encouraged me to pursue writing. She dragged me up out of my seat and to the front of the class to read something I wrote. She told my parents that I was "gifted". She told me to just keep writing, to never stop writing about every little thing. I had a history teacher in high school that was so passionate about what he taught that he had the entire class engaged. He told us, "history is happening all around us, everyday" and reminded us to "look for those key moments". I had a creative writing teacher, Wally Lamb, who learned his first book 'She's Come Undone", had made Oprah's list one day just before he started class. He told us to always "write what we know". Even in my fictional pieces, there are pieces of me and of the things I know to be true and it keeps me credible, it keeps me honest in the craft. I had a professor in college tell me that the path I was on, was not for me. He saw something in me that I hadn't yet realized for myself. I credit him with the most impactful insight of all. The advice reversed the course of my life. Looking back, he had been 100% right. Teaching is one of the last truly noble professions. It takes courage, it takes dedication and compassion. It takes an iron will and a good heart. A good teacher can make a world of difference in someone's life. |
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