Jumbled Thoughts
05/27/2020
I mean, what do you expect?
I hope that one day I will grow up, and these horrid times will be nothing but a distant gray memory. I want everything to go well in my life. My parents invest their souls into me. I'm their gold puppet, exploring the world like it is made for me. They are a shield to me, stopping the bullets of reality, protecting me from the shrapnel that is now. I want to be grateful for tall the things I have, but sometimes it is hard to realize it. Growing up with everything is amazing, but I feel guilty because sometimes I am not the best child in the world. I live currently in a constant sad and angry state. Corona screwed up my last year at Fenn, and everybody else's plans. I will miss these easy times in high school though. When I have 3-4 hours of homework a night, plus long, long commute, I will miss the 1 hour of homework maximum during virtual learning. I write mainly about feelings, but when Fitz tells us to do one of his cookie-cutter Power of _____ I reluctantly do it. Organized writing feels fake. It is barely writing. Welp, this took me 30 minutes because I was thinking too hard. I know he said not to, but it is hard. I like free writes much more.
The best piece of advice that I ever got from a teacher was when my high school English teacher told me to stop listening to him and just write from my soul to the page. Organized writing, like my writing plans, are just ways to practice the flow of conversation in a more precise way. In the end, all that really matters is the effect of a writing piece on the reader and on the writer. You are old enough to drive now, so take your words wherever you want to go.
Posted by: Fitz... | 04/29/2020 at 08:40 PM
Great post Eli, your “ramblings” broke the mold and made an amazing piece
Posted by: Max LG | 05/03/2020 at 12:10 PM
It's always fun to see when you almost write a mini-metacognition about your thoughts at the end of a piece. It really takes us inside your head (for better or for worse :)) and it ends the piece in an unusual but refreshingly unique way.
Posted by: Nick Brady | 05/03/2020 at 02:14 PM
This was very well written, and you had an interesting analogy relating to you as the golden puppet, something I have never seen used before. I do also agree with your statement about free writes being better, and if for some reason Fitz is reading this comment, I think you should have more free writes instead of the other writing assignments.
Posted by: William O'Malley | 05/03/2020 at 10:28 PM
Great work. This is an organized piece filled with jumbled thoughts, and I could read this piece with easy due to the steady flow.
Posted by: Jamie Book | 05/04/2020 at 05:11 AM
I really don't have a preference on either free write or structured assignment, but when ever I finish a free writing assignment I always find my self with more things to write about. I wouldn't mind more free writes as well, be be more comfortable with rambling just as you are.
Posted by: Yoni Ghansah | 05/04/2020 at 07:01 AM