In this blog post, I’ll be talking and exploring in to my Memoir Project and explaining how my narrative allows me to travel into my brain, heart, and nerve thanks to the help of the three videos that I’ll link below. I’ll also be explaining how I have the power to author my life-story and how what shapes our sense of identity.
My narrative makes things much easier to travel into my brain (mind) both then and now by the way that it allows me to think back on what I thought of the situation at the time. When it first happened, I didn’t know what to do and I was confused even. Thinking back on what happened now I have a completely different outlook on it in terms of mental health and how I would’ve much better dealt with things now compared to when I was much younger. I’m sure that goes for most situations though. I can find myself traveling into my heart (emotions) by how back then I was more so upset about things that I had no control over and I didn’t know how to control them. I was full of sadness and anger, while now at my much older age I have little to no emotion about the subject due to how often it would happen, but I still find myself getting upset whenever I do think about it in detail. At this point, I have a better understanding but I’m still very numb to the subject. Regardless, I think it’s healthy to look back on the past and gain an understanding of my feelings and let them out from time to time. My narrative shows risk by showing a more emotional side to storytelling, which is what I believe to be extremely important when you first write a story. I know that conflict has to happen for there to be a story so I decided to write about what I felt fit best from my life that has a lot of conflict. I’m shown by my writing that I can author what happens in my life. By this, I mean that I took the time to educate myself on mental illness. Like said in the video, it wasn’t enough for me to just want to see change but that I actually had to force and want the change of my life for myself. Wanting to change the way I see things about my life at home couldn’t have been changed if I didn’t have any sort of desire for it. Finally, I think the stories we tell ourselves about life events are what shapes our identity. My reason for that is because you could tell a story in a majority of ways, you might take the story in an angered manner while if it happened to someone else they might have taken it in a saddened way. In my mind, everyone is always going to have a different outlook on certain situations. The way you might feel about one situation will always be slightly different than someone else. Of course the events that happen to us are definitely a big part of what makes you, you.. but at the end of the day, the way how you take that event and whether or not you decide to keep pushing on from what happened is what truly shapes yourself.
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Mason
9/30/2019 02:37:41 pm
I really like what you said about how deciding to push through life events are what truly shape your identity. great blog post!
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Abby Warholic
9/30/2019 04:21:29 pm
Destiny, I liked when you said "it wasn’t enough for me to just want to see change but that I actually had to force and want the change of my life for myself." That is a really powerful statement.
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Sabatino
10/2/2019 08:10:51 am
I echo the comments made by Mason and Abby. I appreciate how this blog post provides insights into how you approached composing the memoir to make meaning and even more specifically how narrative writing has allowed you to explore your own life-agency as well as how we construct our identities as human beings in the world. Thank you for sharing.
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