Do you notice this in your own work? Sometimes I might feel inspired to write about something really joyous or happy that I see or experience, but I can never find the words to express it as well as when I'm describing something painful.
2007-11-13 02:10:01 · 14 answers · asked by Linz VT•AM 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
People have the tendency to pay more attention to pain, therefore it is easier for some to express painful experiences.
Joy on the other hand is just experienced without second thought for most people. If you are not sad or in pain, you tend to go about your business and not focus on the joy, just experiencing it is enough.
Pain is more complicated. It invokes feelings that you cannot easily ignore - so people try to reason with it, and attempt to figure it out - in so doing they are very focused on the pain, realizing more about it than they would joy, or not figuring it out at all - so they continue to think on it and come up with more words to describe it because they cannot reason with it.
I've had many extremely painful experiences in my life, and putting it to paper helps me to get it out and sometimes get beyond it - I never want to get beyond joy so I don't write about it.
I hope this makes sense to you, and don't pay attention to my grammar or punctuation - I'm just getting my ideas out and when I do that I don't pay attention to either!
peace!
2007-11-13 02:25:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Probably because when you are sad you feel a big emptiness. That's almost drying you. Have you ever felt your chest really burning inside, no more tears? Then, you are looking to give something good, you are looking to feel good. Only this way you'll fill the emptiness. You may see then the reaction, the smile, the joy in the other ones eyes and feel that you do exist despite of what's inside of you _
Generally, the need of giving to someone something from your inner is actually what is making you to write easier!
Erotic poetry is the same, a need of giving. Anything you do from the heart is easy, whatever the mood - sad, joy, any knowledge, historical, wishes, love _
2007-11-13 05:13:47 · answer #2 · answered by :)(: 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think pain is something that we want to question, to probe, to wonder why it happens, to see if others feel it too. We don't need a reason for joy. I try to find ways to write about joy anyway; I think it is good for the soul (wow, that sounds hokey, but it's true) to think about what makes us happy, and to spend time thinking about it. It simply takes more effort to do so than to follow the reflexive reflection that pain creates.
2007-11-13 04:27:10 · answer #3 · answered by Jeff R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because there is more pain in life then joy. I mean look at it no one is ever happy for a vary long time unless they have a special relationship with God and most people don't...so there is more pain in the world then there is happiness, sad but true
2007-11-13 04:31:26 · answer #4 · answered by Kate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me, it's because joy is something I want to experience while it's happening. It isn't a time that I usually choose to be reflective. With pain, sometimes all I can do is reflect. I think it's just the nature of the emotions.
2007-11-13 02:25:35 · answer #5 · answered by Todd 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I think it's because we are living in a dying, suffering world, and no matter where we go, or what we do, we are faced with pain, war, and death. People die everyday, and we see and hear so much on the news. It's scary what this world is coming to, and all of what we think and hear comes out in our stories and other writings. We can't avoid writing about the sad, the bad, and the painful, because we live in it everyday.
2007-11-13 02:17:54 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The one thing you need to write is passion. Its easier to have passion about something painful than something joyous because pain effects us more than joy.
2007-11-13 03:32:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because when something is emotionally painful, it takes you more inward, and makes you more reflective. That's why sometimes the only way to overcome pain or sorrow is to write it out on paper, through music, etc.... When you're joyful, you are more outgoing, and more likely to let it bubble forth in your conversations and dealings with others.
2007-11-13 02:58:59 · answer #8 · answered by peekabugaboo 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I honestly do not have this issue. I write about smiles and frowns with the same attentiveness. Its the frowns, the hard times, the pain that helps me appreciate, recognize and write about the smiles and good times.
Earth
2007-11-13 06:58:58 · answer #9 · answered by Earth the Poet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do notice this... sometimes I feel like we are more in tune with the pain. We are inundated with suffering around us - if not immediately around us, at least throughout the world via media coverage of others' suffering. I almost feel like we are afraid of the joy.. Like if we acknowledge it, it might go away... who knows why really... maybe we're just wired that way.
(((((Layla))))
2007-11-13 03:08:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋