Blog #2

           In order to help portray what writing's like for me, I'm going to use the famous Forest Gump quote, "life's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." In my eyes, writing is always different. It's true.. you never know what you're going to get. Sometimes I start out with a terrible first draft, or I don't like the subject of the paper, but later realize that the piece is actually somewhat intriguing. There's been so many times where I've dreaded writing a paper just because the idea of it isn't fun or exciting, and it's usually never something that I want to be writing about. But there are also times where I surprise myself, in a sense that I'm actually excited to be writing. Like many people have said, I like writing about things that I'm passionate about, because it's information that I feel strongly about. But when I have to write papers about boring, monotoned things, it isn't enjoyable what so ever.  I believe that everyone has a passion whether it's sports, art, school, etc. Writing about things that interest you, is always going to be better than writing about things that don't. But the thing is, we can't always choose. Instead, the teachers choose for us, and often times we don't know what to expect until it's being assigned or we're having to figure out what to talk about.

         I think that writing is like a box of chocolates because each writing is so unique. I've written a fair amount of essays in my life, and sure a lot of them have the same sort of feel, but not one of them has been the exact same. There's so many different kinds of chocolates, and so many different topics or ways to write papers. There's the more bitter chocolates, the super rich chocolates, the smooth and creamy chocolates, etc. This goes to show that there's going to be essays where you'll just absolutely hate the topic, and there's also going to be essays that will have such good rhythm or flow, that you won't mind writing them at all. That's one of the reasons as to why I find writing so interesting. I know there's definitely been times where I've written something, and then read one of my friend's papers afterwards, and been like "wow this is so different from mine, do I need to change something that I've written?" or "Is mine not good enough?" But now I realize that everyone's so unique in so many different aspects. I hope that more and more people realize this, because I know it's easy to get down on yourself when you think you're not doing good enough... but writing is a challenge for most people, and every paper is it's own individual masterpiece.