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Dec 06, 2008 06:49AM
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lol, wow.
Hey, have u guys ever written letters to yourself, and then hidden them somewhere for where in the future you come across it, and then read it?
Hey, have u guys ever written letters to yourself, and then hidden them somewhere for where in the future you come across it, and then read it?
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cali, our rabbi at my school made us do that; she told us to write letters to ourselves, and then she took it, and in about a year she sent it back to us through the mail. i wrote stuff like "this is stupid" and "i don't know what to write" so yeah...lol XD
lol hilarious.
Yeah it's cool like you find it in a few years, and yeah!
Yeah it's cool like you find it in a few years, and yeah!
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hey so back to "why do you write?" i found this really great quote by Anne Sullivan that explains it all.
"Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it."
"Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it."
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O.o yeaaah ...
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I hate telling teachers my actual opinion on something serious!! I have no idea why but I do!
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Same. But the teachers will always ask the class to write letters to soilders in iraq and Barack Obama.They ask you to write about issues you think our important or things that almost make me cry. And I always have to like keep away from telling my own opinion because it usually ends up being heart-felt, complicated, and makes me sound like a terapist. I just don't want teachers to know that I have feelings other than the fluffybnunny-ness that they show us. because I hate knowing that my teacher will read my letter and grade it on conventions and weather or not I have 6 sentences in a paragraph! It makes me think that they don't care, most of the time i think they don't.
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But I understand how you feel. Before 8th grade, I was afraid to actually use style in my writing because I was afraid that my teachers would think I was rude with my usage of sarcasm. But then at the beginning of 8th grade, we had an assignment to write about what animal we would be if we were an animal. Or something like that. I think it was a get-to-know-you sort of thing. Anyhow, I really let myself show for the first time in that assignment, and after that I realized that I did not need to modify MY writing to other's liking. Since then I haven't given a care if I sound rude when I'm being sarcastic, because if somebody takes it as rude or personally insulting, that's THEIR problem, not mine. After all, the writer just writes, and the reader interprets.
I really need to get off my butt and write something thoughtful and depressing! I've been repressing it forever and i'm getting a whole new load of writing projects to repress my feelings at school. So now i keep writing long paragraphs explaining everything in a ton of groups!
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Idk. I love to read, makes me want to write, I guess. I don't draw anything except magna, so it's a way to express myself, I guess
I am really really really close to my History teacher, but that's it. She's so awesome. I know like everything about her and vice versa
I write for sanity in an insane world. Through writing I find connections between things I previously thought were unrelated. Through writing I find meanings I never realized were there. Through writing I find purpose where before I thought there was none. Writing is a way to see further and deeper into life. Like a microscope or a telescope through which you can look at life. And although I know that writing is ultimately an illusion, it is an illusion that can become real because when it's good, it is more real than reality itself.
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Wow I feel so behind in this group XDI write cause it's fun and I have so many stories in my head that it's the only way get them out!
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because I have nothing else better to do . . .
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me too . . . usually i don't have anything to do.
because the voices in my head need to go away SOMEHOW
It takes away stress and when I have a creative idea, i know i can store it on paper or computer... to practice for my future career when im older
Kill reality and I love writing and that's all I care about.
