Writing Resources from Fifteen Minutes of Fiction
The following is a piece of writing submitted by Sylvan Sylph on April 6, 2008
"Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in comparisons and in trying to be better than other people. It's easy to forget to do things for the pure joy of doing them and to enjoy what other people do because they enjoy it. Our culture is often focused on success being defined by outdoing someone else. We somehow feel better about what what we do by minimizing what someone else has done. We forget that, in the end, someone will always be better than we are; and ultimately, everything we do will fade away anyway. If we could learn to take pride in our work for its own merit and to value the work of others because we value those who do it, we would be far happier."
Temporary Castles
I'm building castles in the sand.I watch the waves wash them all away
At the end of every day.
You're building castles in the snow,
Just to watch the sun melt them away
At the end of every day.
Who can say if what I do
Is more beautiful than you?
At the end of the day who can know?
Because there's nothing left to show,
For all the time we spent;
For all the work we've done.
This beach is my gallery.
This sand is my palette and my canvas.
That field is your gallery.
That snow is your palette and your canvas.
We are not so different you and I.
What do we have left to hide?
Everything is turned to water.
Everything is washed away.
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