First thoughts

I am still amazed by what I got myself into. I have never been the kind of person who likes to share what she has written with other people because I am too worried that my work is far away from perfect. In high school I would write essays and never dare to give them to someone else to read save for my teacher. Now, I have to strip my mind not only in front of my classmates but also in front of all the Internet users out there – this adds to millions of people! I am having a hard start, I admit, but I hope that through pushing myself, I can soon reach a comfortable level of confidence about my work and about other people reading it.

While I am slightly scared by the idea of sharing my thoughts and my past with other people, I am quite excited about the forthcoming activities and essays intended to make me dig deeper into my own self. Sometimes I feel lost: I do not know what matters to me (if anything at all), where I am headed, and what I believe in. I see this course as a journey towards my real me, a one-month self-reflection that will help me understand myself a bit better.

Link to a story

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Scroll down to Creative Non-Fiction and click on Without a Sound.

5-minute story draft + Flickr picture

12 a.m. I was just 12 but instead of cuddling under the soft sheets in my bed, I was still outside. My parents were not worried because they knew that that they just needed to peek through the window to see me down there on the brightly lit street, playing in the safe company of my friends. Often times those games were very engaging and closely mimicking the lives of the grown-ups that we admired so much at that time. Creativity and imagination were in the air, and we were good actors indeed. We would be professional vets helping injured pigeons one day, and explorers anxious to discover the mysteries of Egypt the other. Inspired by all the foreign movies we saw on TV, we once even imagined leading college lives in the USA. Years later, the last game translated to reality for me.