I mostly responded to the how much
she went into both the personal aspect and the a few other perspectives of the
color blue. As soon as I saw how omnipresent
the color blue was in her life, my obsession with clouds immediately came to mind.
I decided to write about clouds in a similar fashion, and type out my analysis
and the different perspectives on clouds. Her style of writing, that being
clear and detailed sentences that still left a lot to be interpreted, appealed
to me deeply as someone who was raised to appreciate crisp and clear sentences.
I’ve realized that, while writing
on a computer is the process I am the most comfortable in doing (since I do it
so much for school anyway), there is a major limitation that I find in doing
it, which is the fear of the blank page. I was constantly second guessing myself
before even starting to write, especially since the prompt was basically asking
us to reveal our personal thoughts on something that might appear as silly or
even crazy to some people. That’s part of the reason why the tone of the piece
is a bit on the self-deprecating side. I decided to do that because, while
clouds to me are extremely beautiful, a part of me still felt slightly ridiculous
writing about them.
I learned from this particular
assignment how much guts it takes to explicitly put your perspective out there
in a meaningful and clear way, and that I am not the only one with doubts about
how much I should share about my life in my work. The author of Bluets herself
stated she might regret writing something that was so revealing of herself and her
thoughts, yet she wrote and published the book anyway, with it containing
explicit detail of her sexual fantasies. It almost makes me feel like a baby
for even feeling slightly self-conscious when writing about clouds.
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