Often in my life as a college student I feel DOA (Dead on Arrival). I feel as if I am constantly searching for new inspiration and new energy in order to get through another day. As a college student I am constantly faced with assignments and deadlines, not all I am passionate about. Yet, I have to struggle to find some tiny bit of passion to pour into the many pages of every assignment. Though I am not always successful it is during the moments when I can muster up that passion and truly engage with the assignment or idea that it seems I have too much to say.
In Annie Dillard's, "Write Till You Drop," I can identify with the feeling of being truly enthralled in a subject. The feeling of being emotionally and physically attracted and moved by something leading you to drain your life force in order to express it. Having to literally write as if you are going to go braindead because if you don't put it all out there. If it seems as if you left something out you will literally go crazy or die. I can understand the passion and the struggle and yet I find myself, at the point where my idea has died and anything else would just be a half-hearted attempt at false passion. So to save the reader from ramblings and redundant statements I must cease and leave room for pondering.
The End.
1 comment:
Good idea to include a personal narrative, but you may have to add more to engage with your reader, who perhaps may be in the same boat as you. Think about better ways to appeal to a reader with these entries. I think you do a better job of getting to the analysis - the substance in the 2nd paragraph.
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