Free AI web copilot to create summaries, insights and extended knowledge, download it at here

Abstract

and harassment to <i>learn the lesson</i> and <i>learn to be grateful</i>, placing the burden of getting to safety on her child self to behave in a certain way and learn immediately the changing whims and emotions of adults around her and how to manage them.</p><p id="50d3">It was rough — sometimes people insist that certain folks should just “learn to be better” or “learn to adapt” to situations that are unfair, dangerous, or both without acknowledging that the situation itself should be changed. Or without acknowledging that in certain instances (e.g., survival mode), the priority isn’t to learn a lesson, but to survive. In surviving, there is no moment to stop and pensively reflect on what went right or wrong, but only to gasp for air and something buoyant.</p><p id="6a34">To expect someone to find a lesson when someone is healing, or worse, as a <i>solution to their healing</i> can be damaging when that person doesn’t find meaning in it. It is not up to you to impose meaning or value or a lesson on someone else’s experiences, it is up to them to define it.</p><p id="0810">Thank you to <a href="undefined">𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊.</a> for this weekend prompt so that I could craft thi

Options

s fictional piece of poetry!</p><div id="d016" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/weekend-prompt-seek-the-lesson-fe925a39ee1b"> <div> <div> <h2>Weekend Prompt: “Seek the Lesson”</h2> <div><h3>30–31st of January</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*2IZV1QoxQRxoM29p1ocpGQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="8c6e" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/i-dont-want-to-be-accommodated-436a805e227b"> <div> <div> <h2>I don’t want to be accommodated</h2> <div><h3>A poem to challenge your assumptions</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Srw92j3OEFQ0hWUZTGtauw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

The Island

Poetry Prompt: Seek the Lesson

Seek the lesson, the Goddess bellowed to her drowning sailors struggled to stay afloat.

None of them stayed alive to reap the benefits of never using the forest wood the Goddess preferred to build the vessel that was meant to keep them sailing, never made it to the safety of the glistening island filled with luscious forests and abundant fruits.

Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) was told often to just learn from difficult situations, and for the most part, she believes this is a valuable skill to learn. However, she was told far too often in instances of abuse and harassment to learn the lesson and learn to be grateful, placing the burden of getting to safety on her child self to behave in a certain way and learn immediately the changing whims and emotions of adults around her and how to manage them.

It was rough — sometimes people insist that certain folks should just “learn to be better” or “learn to adapt” to situations that are unfair, dangerous, or both without acknowledging that the situation itself should be changed. Or without acknowledging that in certain instances (e.g., survival mode), the priority isn’t to learn a lesson, but to survive. In surviving, there is no moment to stop and pensively reflect on what went right or wrong, but only to gasp for air and something buoyant.

To expect someone to find a lesson when someone is healing, or worse, as a solution to their healing can be damaging when that person doesn’t find meaning in it. It is not up to you to impose meaning or value or a lesson on someone else’s experiences, it is up to them to define it.

Thank you to 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊. for this weekend prompt so that I could craft this fictional piece of poetry!