The Tease question and answer
Lilian Holmes
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Answer:
The Tease
You’re a nuisance, I declare;
You tease me so, it isn’t fair;
You pounce on me from everywhere,
And seize my hat, and clutch my hair,
And tie my clothes in knots, and tear
The leaves and blossom from the pear;
I wish that I could set a snare
To catch you-but I shouldn’t dare,
For, though you tease me, I declare,
O Wind, if you were never there,
I don’t think I could manage, quite,
To sail my boat or fly my kite.
-Lilian Holmes
A short,simple and yet meaningful poem that speaks volumes about life and life struggles. Our lives are like sail boats.Everyday, from the moment we wake up, we set certain goals that we want to achieve at the end of the day.We wake up each day with certain longing to find a purpose in our lives,whether it is for success,for happiness or for a lifelong adventure.Like a sailor, we aim to go to a direction where everything is good and happy but our sails through life is not easy. No matter how prepared we are for our journey, the wind will always blow us into a different direction. A direction that we don’t really want to go to but end up going to and it sucks.
The wind of unexpected circumstances,change and unpredictable hardships can halt our journey and sometimes capsize our sailboats.
We have disappointments and challenges in spite of our best plans and efforts. It is frustrating and sometimes it makes us feel so lost but thats reality.Thats life. The poem describes those negative feelings we feel when things don’t exactly go well as we hope it to be. Its a sad poem actually that depicts the cruel reality of living but it will also make you ponder about life.
You may think that the wind is nasty, the wind is cruel as it was describe in the poem but if you think about it.The wind is actually there to challenge us. It is testing our strength on how to manouver our life when things go wrong…Instead of complaining and fighting off the wind, we should befriend the wind,embrace its challenge and face it head on. Those unexpected circumstances will not determine the quality of our lives, it is what we choose to do when we have struggled to set the sail and then discover, after all of our efforts, that the wind has changed directions.
Like Jon Rohn said “When the winds change, we must change. We must struggle to our feet once more and reset the sail in the manner that will steer us toward the destination of our own deliberate choosing. The set of the sail, how we think and how we respond, has a far greater capacity to destroy our lives than any challenges we face. How quickly and responsibly we react to adversity is far more important than the adversity itself. Once we discipline ourselves to understand this, we will finally and willingly conclude that the great challenge of life is to control the process of our thinking.
Learning to reset the sail with the changing winds rather than permitting ourselves to be blown in a direction we did not purposely choose requires the development of a whole new discipline. It involves going to work on establishing a powerful, personal philosophy that will help to influence in a positive way all that we do and that we think and decide. If we can succeed in this worthy endeavor, the result will be a change in the course of our income, lifestyle and relationships, and in how we feel about the things of value as well as the times of challenge. If we can alter the way we perceive, judge and decide upon the main issues of life, then we can dramatically change our lives.”