We were asked to read Pagnucci and Berry this week and post a blog on it. First I read Pagnucci and then I read Berry.
After opening up these readings I was too happy due to the length of them. I’m not a big fan of reading especially academically readings. Sometimes I just don’t get it or completely bored by it. However after reading Pagnucci’s, Narrative Life, I enjoyed because I could connect to things in my life to the story. Pagnucci talked about childhood and memories which made me think back to my childhood and how I wish at times I could go back to where life seemed much easier. Pagnucci mentions, “How narrative life is about embracing the stories that make us who we are.” I feel that certain events in my life whether good or bad have shaped who I am today and I feel that in my writing I reflect that. Almost all my writing is inspired by or written from my own life experiences. I never really enjoyed writing because I felt I wasn’t good or good enough as others. However, when I began writing academically in college I seemed to always go towards personal things in my life. In writer’s Mind I wrote a personal paper on genre’s that I did quite get or enjoy but I wrote it about my grandfather who recently passed away. When I began writing I felt a better connection to writing that I never felt before. I still am a little disconnected from writing but when it’s personal I love it.
This article reminded me to cherish those memories and to incorporate them into my writing. My life has been a roller coaster and I’ve gone through things that people will never go through but it makes me stronger. Some of the best writings I read are from personal real life situations. I really enjoyed reading this article by Pagnucci. If all the readings were like this, I defiantly would enjoy reading academically more often!
Berry
In the reading, A Native Hill, the author talks about their hometown and all the memories and impact this town made on them. I think of where I live and how I lived in this town, Washington Township all my life. I look back at all the memories I built here good or bad. This town defiantly had an impact on who I am today because of the way I brought up here and the people I grew up with. Berry mentions, “If I had been born five years later.” I catch myself wishing that. If only I had been born or could go back to a particular time or event in my life, would I do anything differently?
As I was reading this line stuck to me, “Too much that we do is done at the expense of something else, or somebody else.” I think back to decision I have made in my life and how the outcome could have been different or would have not affected someone else besides me. I feel that whatever we do in life or say can affect another person. I feel this in my everyday life because my parents our divorced. Anything I do will be at the expense of someone else. I can never do right because when I make my dad happy, I upset my mom and if I do good for my mom, I upset my dad. Whatever I do will be at an expense on either one and I’m the type of person that wants to make everyone happy before my self. I rather be down and upset then seeing someone else in that mood.
After opening up these readings I was too happy due to the length of them. I’m not a big fan of reading especially academically readings. Sometimes I just don’t get it or completely bored by it. However after reading Pagnucci’s, Narrative Life, I enjoyed because I could connect to things in my life to the story. Pagnucci talked about childhood and memories which made me think back to my childhood and how I wish at times I could go back to where life seemed much easier. Pagnucci mentions, “How narrative life is about embracing the stories that make us who we are.” I feel that certain events in my life whether good or bad have shaped who I am today and I feel that in my writing I reflect that. Almost all my writing is inspired by or written from my own life experiences. I never really enjoyed writing because I felt I wasn’t good or good enough as others. However, when I began writing academically in college I seemed to always go towards personal things in my life. In writer’s Mind I wrote a personal paper on genre’s that I did quite get or enjoy but I wrote it about my grandfather who recently passed away. When I began writing I felt a better connection to writing that I never felt before. I still am a little disconnected from writing but when it’s personal I love it.
This article reminded me to cherish those memories and to incorporate them into my writing. My life has been a roller coaster and I’ve gone through things that people will never go through but it makes me stronger. Some of the best writings I read are from personal real life situations. I really enjoyed reading this article by Pagnucci. If all the readings were like this, I defiantly would enjoy reading academically more often!
Berry
In the reading, A Native Hill, the author talks about their hometown and all the memories and impact this town made on them. I think of where I live and how I lived in this town, Washington Township all my life. I look back at all the memories I built here good or bad. This town defiantly had an impact on who I am today because of the way I brought up here and the people I grew up with. Berry mentions, “If I had been born five years later.” I catch myself wishing that. If only I had been born or could go back to a particular time or event in my life, would I do anything differently?
As I was reading this line stuck to me, “Too much that we do is done at the expense of something else, or somebody else.” I think back to decision I have made in my life and how the outcome could have been different or would have not affected someone else besides me. I feel that whatever we do in life or say can affect another person. I feel this in my everyday life because my parents our divorced. Anything I do will be at the expense of someone else. I can never do right because when I make my dad happy, I upset my mom and if I do good for my mom, I upset my dad. Whatever I do will be at an expense on either one and I’m the type of person that wants to make everyone happy before my self. I rather be down and upset then seeing someone else in that mood.
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