WHAT IS SOLACE??? The meaning in oxford dictionary solace is
defined as a source of comfort and consolation in some sorrow misfortune or at
the point of utter depression or distress.
Cold comfort Offering limited sympathy
or encouragement. For say people who lost their jobs during the recession would
likely take cold comfort from economic reports that an upturn was likely to occur
in the future, those upturns are called solace. Shakespeare used the phrase in King
John: “I do not ask you much, I beg cold comfort (solace); and you are so strait
and so in grateful, you deny me that.”
I can recall one of the writings from THE ISLAND, “There it
must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily
cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us
must find its solace and its hope”
There are many a times where we see that we are defeated by our
self, there we require or demand a place for Solace. It is a ray of light which
transform the feeling of one inside and give a sense of happiness to a being. We
all had been faced a feeling of solace in our life’s yet. Almost Heaven
Retreats are for seeking spiritual direction in the solace of silence.
Interpretation and criticism often wear the same hat, but
unlike interpretation, which is relatively benign, criticisms and rejections
can be devastating. Since I am a writer myself, subject to rejection and the
barbs of critics as are many of you, some important book I read presents
critical, if not downright nasty, quotes from reviews rejections of now classic
works. It is solace for the spirit.
What I love is, it is not the critic who counts; not the man
who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could
have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without
error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows
great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at
the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor
defeat with this we don’t require solace too.
Giving rest to my words, I present one abstract of the poem “where
grows Not even one lonely rose - My soul at least a solace
hath In dreams of thee, and therein knows An Eden of bland repose.”
HAPPY READING
