Great job Amit! I enjoyed seeing bits of our conversation sprinkled through the essay. I also "vividly remember sitting with the right answer stuck in my throat" or sometimes with a question that I didn't have the courage to ask. This is a problem for so many of us, I wish I had read this back in high school or maybe earlier. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you Eddy! Really appreciate you encouraging me to dig deeper into those personal moments for this piece. It's powerful to hear that those personal moments mirror your own experience.
Amit! This is so true and yet somehow I missed this point as well. I love how you've woven these ideas of all our different voices (or parts of self as I often think of them) into the wholeness of who we are. Thank you for pushing through the doubts to write this piece. Another way to think about George Bernard shaw's quote: "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about Creating Yourself."
I really love this. I had a version of this conversation with my Mum today, that WoP has made me think about how I’ve been wondering about my voice and self-sabotage my voice in various ways for years. I really liked this re-frame, a way to ask a different question, thinking about what voice is this and how is it giving me wisdom.
Thank you for sharing this! It's touching to hear how this resonates with your own journey, especially that conversation with your Mum.
WoP has a way of making us examine these deeper questions about voice and expression. It's like we come looking for writing techniques but end up discovering parts of ourselves we didn't know were there.
Great job Amit! I enjoyed seeing bits of our conversation sprinkled through the essay. I also "vividly remember sitting with the right answer stuck in my throat" or sometimes with a question that I didn't have the courage to ask. This is a problem for so many of us, I wish I had read this back in high school or maybe earlier. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you Eddy! Really appreciate you encouraging me to dig deeper into those personal moments for this piece. It's powerful to hear that those personal moments mirror your own experience.
Amit! This is so true and yet somehow I missed this point as well. I love how you've woven these ideas of all our different voices (or parts of self as I often think of them) into the wholeness of who we are. Thank you for pushing through the doubts to write this piece. Another way to think about George Bernard shaw's quote: "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about Creating Yourself."
Thank you for this beautiful insight! I love how you've connected these voices to "parts of self" - that's such a nurturing way to think of one self.
Writing is such a transformative process, so what you said about "pushing through doubts" was an important ingredient for writing this essay.
I really love this. I had a version of this conversation with my Mum today, that WoP has made me think about how I’ve been wondering about my voice and self-sabotage my voice in various ways for years. I really liked this re-frame, a way to ask a different question, thinking about what voice is this and how is it giving me wisdom.
Thank you for sharing this! It's touching to hear how this resonates with your own journey, especially that conversation with your Mum.
WoP has a way of making us examine these deeper questions about voice and expression. It's like we come looking for writing techniques but end up discovering parts of ourselves we didn't know were there.