Ways to Celebrate: Write a poem!

I think a lot of people avoid poetry because they have this idea that it's too complicated or too high-brow or too stuffy for them. They're wrong.

Poetry doesn't belong exclusively to the tragically dissatisfied children of the elite ruling class. It belongs to every one of us.

Write some.

If you're not sure how to get started, here's a tip: cut your heart open and let it bleed out on the paper. (That's a metaphor, by the way. Wondra's World does not condone self harm. It does condone the Metaphor Drinking Game, however, so you know what to do.)

It's as easy as that. Don't torture yourself over convention or pretense or what other people might think.

Write for yourself.

Take all those emotions you keep bottled up and get them down on paper. It doesn't have to be pretty. Hell, it doesn't even have to be good. It just needs to get written.

So do it.