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The power of I

My favorite journal entry

To experience nature truly. You need to be excluded, alone, and peaceful. My fists clenched like I gripping bike handles. I was in a meadow, a one on a hill, in the middle of no where. The breeze was perfect, enough to cool me off, but not enough to disturb the harmony in the air. I just came off something stressful, annoying, and damaging. I needed alone time. I felt like a little kid in a temper tantrum. Yet I hid it inside of me like an insecurity afraid to let it loose. I couldn’t let people know what hideous monster has grown inside of me. I didn’t want to admit it, but there was something scary about telling people how I really feel and what I’m really like. Behind the one worded answers I would give, there was much more. But what does this have to do with nature. And truly I don’t know, I started it off with nature and about how peaceful and how great it is to be alone experiencing nature. But it got to me and I let the beast out and I said what had to be said, I spoke the truth and only the truth, not covering anything up. And thats what this story is about I guess. Letting your emotions out and showing what you really are. Forget the nature forget that, I changed my mind this journal entry is wired lets leave it at that.

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Rory Kennealy

It is always best to tell people how you feel, and you showed that in this piece. this was also really well-written. I liked the descriptive language you used at the start describing the wind. great writing Colin!

Fitz...

This is exactly what a journal entry can and should be. It starts off somewhere and goes somewhere deeper and embraces the conflict inside. I love it and you should be proud of it.

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