Sunday, March 11
Confused!
Call me crazy,I'm still confused as to how we are supposed to start paper #3. Depending on what we choose we either write about our experience and how it involves our lives? For example going to the museum, how does that change or makes our lives any better or what? I'm still wondering how that will make 4 pages? thanks!
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You know, it always pains me to see the word "confused" from a student, for I always "take it personally." "Oh, I was not clear enough ... oh, am terrible."
ReplyDeleteLet's change that word confused to ... chicken.
I am chicken.
I went to a museum that showed me scenes of terror on a people and I don't know if I can fill up four pages on the wonder of that terror, the population who was there to see it, the fact that there is one country in the world led by a man who says it never happened, the feeling that it put in my heart and my challenge of what to do with - how to express - that feeling in all the days left to me on earth. I knew, watching some of the scenes that I was touched to my innermost self at the horror of man to man, and I wonder if I will have the wisdom to maintain my awareness as I relate to people, particularly people who are "different from" me. Will I remember that we are all the same - or will I revert to outward distinctions, which led to this horror.
The feelings are so profound that I do not know how I can KEEP them to four pages only. Perhaps I will take a cue from my teacher and write a day or two of "morning pages" to see what "germ" is in me that I can unravel. Also, if I trust myself, I will know that the morning pages on this topic will yield the true matter of what I, personally, wish to write about this - and then I will remember that the teacher always said "no more than four pages" not that I must fill up four pages.
I will begin this exercise with humility that I demanded to know what to do when the experience at the museum already filled me with the knowledge of what to do. What to do is to be decent, to be decent to every person who crosses my path.
Thank you for that. I actually was afraid to write "chicken" I should have because that's what it truly is. I've seen many students write that, i guess we are afraid of admitting the truth. HA! OKay. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI like chicken. :p jk
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