Art

We are talking about "Making Changes" today and the tutor showed us a movie "In her shoes".
It's pretty heartwarming seeing how the family regained their losses, made changes and led the lives that they desired.

It is difficult to make changes especially due to the "big assumption" that exist in all of us. I guessed courage is crucial in taking a step forward but encouragement is equally important as well. Just as what the movie has shown, the supportive environment gave them the courage and push themselves to make a change in their lives. The old people are just too adorable.

Personally, I like the poem that the old man made Maggie read.

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

-- Elizabeth Bishop