kura
Jul 18, 2009
Undergraduate / "Fleeting memories" - Are there any significant experiences you have had.... [16]
Topic : Are there any significant experiences you have had, or accomplishments you have realized that have helped to define you as a person?
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"Of course there are, but..." She trailed off. Her eyes reflected a gaze that of puzzled thoughtfulness as she bit her lower lip unconsciously, trying to embody her conception into words, and soon enough she returns your question with a question. "...why do you only ask of such experiences? Shouldn't each incident, whether how inconspicuous, has helped in creating our own person?"
When you spoke of significant, the first pages of my memory book open in an instant. The worn leaves and ink tell the story at those times when I felt awfully incompetent, when I shed my tears, when I took happiness part by part and thanked God for every blessing. Whereas when you spoke of accomplishments, we turn to the middle chapters and find gold pages written on with fine ink of pride-filled and triumphant recorded memoirs. But as we read the latter pages, you saw I labeled each chapter of it as the summation of everything that had been written before and asked, "Why is every sentence overlapping?"
"It is what it is-the result of everything significant that keeps redefining half of me."
"And where does the other half come from?"
I simply smile, "Fleeting memories."
We, as people, do not live in this world as we are. Constantly changing, consistently searching for new ideas, prominent incidents alone cannot depict a fragment of us as they are also made from plain, forgotten beginnings. Rather, in each passing second of our lives, whether we know it or not, even an unmindful glance on the road had already started to change our perspective on the world.
"Sometimes, the incidents we remember the least make the greatest impression on us."
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I think instead of writing an essay, I wrote it like a literary piece. Is that bad? ek.
And I feel like I need to expand more on the subject since I wrote it too general.
Please do help me on this one. I would be more willing to rewrite the whole thing if you tell me to! :]
Thank you very much!
Topic : Are there any significant experiences you have had, or accomplishments you have realized that have helped to define you as a person?
----
"Of course there are, but..." She trailed off. Her eyes reflected a gaze that of puzzled thoughtfulness as she bit her lower lip unconsciously, trying to embody her conception into words, and soon enough she returns your question with a question. "...why do you only ask of such experiences? Shouldn't each incident, whether how inconspicuous, has helped in creating our own person?"
When you spoke of significant, the first pages of my memory book open in an instant. The worn leaves and ink tell the story at those times when I felt awfully incompetent, when I shed my tears, when I took happiness part by part and thanked God for every blessing. Whereas when you spoke of accomplishments, we turn to the middle chapters and find gold pages written on with fine ink of pride-filled and triumphant recorded memoirs. But as we read the latter pages, you saw I labeled each chapter of it as the summation of everything that had been written before and asked, "Why is every sentence overlapping?"
"It is what it is-the result of everything significant that keeps redefining half of me."
"And where does the other half come from?"
I simply smile, "Fleeting memories."
We, as people, do not live in this world as we are. Constantly changing, consistently searching for new ideas, prominent incidents alone cannot depict a fragment of us as they are also made from plain, forgotten beginnings. Rather, in each passing second of our lives, whether we know it or not, even an unmindful glance on the road had already started to change our perspective on the world.
"Sometimes, the incidents we remember the least make the greatest impression on us."
-----
I think instead of writing an essay, I wrote it like a literary piece. Is that bad? ek.
And I feel like I need to expand more on the subject since I wrote it too general.
Please do help me on this one. I would be more willing to rewrite the whole thing if you tell me to! :]
Thank you very much!
