Welcome to my blog post. For this assignment, we were to read A Fable for the Living by Kevin Brockmeier and write a letter to our author selves. A Fable for the Living tells the story of communication via letters to someone who is not actually there. I, too, will try to reap the benefits of writing a letter for the sake of myself.
Dear Impulse, It’s been a while, huh? I mean, I’ve done writing for school, you haven’t been totally distant, but we haven’t really… connected in a while. Not the way we used to. In the past, I wrote to work through my feelings. You brought me a lot of comfort through that. I’ve said quite often that I miss you, but it’s really true. I was so harsh on you and it’s made me scared to come back to you. I have open the last thing you wrote for yourself now. In it, you wrote of a relationship that was like the sea crashing against rocks. I want that to be us again. I will be the force that pushes against you, a constant, and I will shape you. My life experiences will soften your edges. Don’t you want that? Don’t you want to get swept up in each other again? I do. I really do. Let’s find each other again, okay? I know it will be hard and take a lot of effort on my part, but I really want this. And I hope you do too. I really think I need you right now, with everything going on. What I need to do is stop hesitating, to stop making excuses to avoid you. I named you after my favorite superhero, Impulse. He doesn’t think, he just acts. I’m a lot like him in a lot of ways, but overthinking is something that gets in my way a lot. I need to stop overthinking things and just WRITE. Just put words down. I can fix them later. We need a plan going forward. I’m not good at making plans and tend to be worse at sticking to them, but I really think you’re worth it. First off, we’re gonna set aside at least half an hour to write every day. Even if we only get a few words down on day, that’s fine. We tried and there’s always tomorrow. Hopefully, we’ll improve and be able to continue longer. Secondly, we are going to ask for help. We need to stop running from the people who are here to help us, we need to stop carrying our burdens alone. We KNOW that it has never done us any good to avoid our problems. Even if the help we need is to just ask someone to make sure we are spending our half our together, then we should do it. We are not as alone as we think we are. Lastly, and this one is just on me, I’m going to stop being embarrassed by you. I’m going to stop being afraid to look at my own writing again. I’m not going to be afraid to show it to others. And if I am afraid? I’m going to do it anyway. No one grows through inaction. We’ve got this. Sincerely, Nate
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Brandon Foy
2/11/2020 10:04:40 am
I like how you had a plan set with your author self and how you really connected with that side of you
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