In my response for this week I attempted to do a small recreation of what Maggie Nelson did in her book Bluets. I started by following her theme by creating a list with some larger writings as she did. Overall, I thought it was pretty simple which is why I’m questioning myself If I even did this correctly. I started writing about football or soccer how we call it in America. For my process I started writing random things that came into my mind when I think of the sport. Eventually I remembered a bad experience I had when I went to a soccer camp and I built of that. I used these to show the emotion I feel when I think about soccer, or as I wrote football. My idea was that something so pleasurable can bring you back to a time where you regret or wonder how your life could have been different. I believe I expressed this very well in my response for this weeks assignment. As for limitations for these materials I can’t imagine any. Anyone can write their emotions onto a piece of paper, and as for the sport of football anyone can play. There are third world countries that find a way to play this sport. People grow up in poverty creating their own soccer balls from old paper and roll it into a ball to be able to kick a ball around. Which again why I love this sport so much, there are no limitations. For other sports you need a bat and equipment. Football all that is needed is a ball to kick, and two items on the ground to create a goal. Through this response I learned that writing in this formate can be very therapeutic. As I continued to write I realized how much I disliked this man for crushing my dreams when I was a boy. I didn’t even think about this man until I really thought about why I never sticked with this sport. Now I realized maybe some of my life choices weren’t the best and I probably shouldn’t have had that man put me down. But, I don’t regret any choices I made in my life since this made me who I am today.
I think if someone is reading this response I wrote they wouldn’t expect the turn it made. I went from something that was simple, and sweet to a bad experience and my life story in a sense. Once I mentioned my father saying to turn off me watching a soccer game, the reader may have an idea where I was going. But, once I hit the idea what happened when I played the sport the reader can see the emotional turn that was about to happen. I think I revealed this very well, but I could have revealed this in the beginning using different wording, or some more negative towards the beginning. Overall, I believe who ever is reading this can understand where I’m coming from. By showing my love and interest in the sport to how I hate how I never played it. For a different form I could have created a series of photos of someone happily playing this sport to a tough life towards the end of the series. Even showing the series of photos if I stuck with this sport, and comparing it to the life I chosen.
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