Absurd Amounts of Love
A haiku for these challenging days.
Capturing street art is a hobby of mine and this year, during the COVID lockdowns, many of these pieces have also inspired some poetry. Here is one of my favorites.
So much pain and strife
What can bring us together?
I will choose to love.
How are you doing this year? It has been a tough one hasn't it? Focusing on love has been difficult at times but always worthwhile. Let me know what you are doing to carry yourself through.
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Peggy McDaniel
Ex-expat with nomadic tendencies. Usually seen snapping pics and eating local food while pondering a haiku or story. Currently resides in Portland, OR. Yogi, nurse, oiler, and wellness advocate always in search of the next best beach.
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When one chooses or is forced to leave a group with which one has been associated for an extended period of time one of the most oft heard pieces of advice is how important it is that one "not burn any bridges" on their way out the door. This advice is said to apply no matter the circumstances (good, bad, or neutral) of ones leaving of the particular group. However, it is most often spoken of in the case of unfriendly or forced departures. In those instances, the idea is that the relationships (the bridges) one has nurtured within the group over time, are more important than any particular action(s) of any person(s) in the group that resulted in said individual being forced out against his or her will. In the case of large organizations it may be that the person(s) responsible for the forced ejection of the individual are very far removed from that persons actual day to day "life" in the organization, and thus do not have much of a relationship (bridge) to begin with, and thus would likely be at least partially exempt from the standard advice on the importance of not burning bridges. More commonly however, forcing an individual to leave a group against their will almost always requires the direct 'negative' intervention of one or more other individuals in the group that the leaver does know and usually knows very well. I use the word negative in this case only because from the perspective of the individual being forced to leave (the leaver) the outcome is (at least perceived to be) a negative. If it were not they would not protest at being asked/forced to leave. In most cases, the person being forced out of the group probably has some personal relationships with the persons whose interventions (whatever they may be) have in some way led to their forced departure from the group, and these relationships may have been positive, negative, or neutral from the leavers point of view.
By Everyday Junglist5 days ago in Humans
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