When you think of a question like this what comes to mind?
Is it your parents, pets, friends, your cellphone, or is it something a little
more sentimental? To me, when I think of this question there is one thing I
could possibly say: Self-Validation. Oh, I know what you’re thinking 'she is
just insecure,' or 'she is being a snowflake' but I assure you that I am not.
When I say self-validation I’m not referring to people's thoughts of me or
trying to fit in or be different. I mean by the validation in the things that I
do and how I can make an impact of my personal surroundings. Let's take me
going to college as an example. I do not live in a suburban neighborhood with
white picket fences, I live in Macon with a new body bag at the corner of my
street once or twice a week. The fact that I know that I’m going to college to
achieve a higher life style and to take better care of myself and my family so
that we can get out of Macon and into the white picket fences gives me a sense
of self-validation. It provides me with a purpose to my life and validates the
things that I do. If I didn't have a sense of self-validation, then honestly,
I'd probably be in a deep depression.
Are these myths bias or are they true? In Irvin's essay, "What Is “Academic” Writing?" he outlined and debunked 7 myths that most high school and college students were made to believe as they evolved as writers. The Myths Are: Myth #1: The “Paint by Numbers” myth Myth #2: Writers only start writing when they have everything figured out Myth #3: Perfect first drafts Myth #4: Some got it; I don’t—the genius fallacy Myth #5: Good grammar is good writing Myth #6: The Five Paragraph Essay Myth #7: Never use “I” Most of these myth's I have personally never heard of but I just can't agree with myth #1. The myth is described as "writers believe they must perform certain steps in a particular order to write “correctly.” Rather than being a lock-step linear process,-". Maybe it's just me being stubborn but I've always been taught to follow an evidence triangle or some type of layout when I wrote essays and it made it a little more easier an...
I really enjoyed reading your blog! We all dream of having that nice house with a picket fence, but it simply is not given to us. The fact that you are in college and have self-validation for the things that you do is the first step of your future life. It won't be easy but I know that you will be able to achieve your goals if you focus!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sonia.. WE all truly want to succeed and I really hope each and everyone of us does because we all worked really hard for that. Going to school is not easy. Its a lot of work and takes a lot of courage and sometimes it can be very overwhelming but we've made it too darn far to give up. We all want that happy life and I really hope all this pays off because life is really really hard.
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