I am writing a letter to my author-self. Upon reading A Fable for the Living, I realized that if we stop connecting with people and things that are gone they die a second time. Their first death is the actual loss of them from the earth, but a person's second death is them being forgotten about forever. If we don’t keep in contact with things that we care about we begin to lose them, so I am writing to my author-self in hopes that it is not too late and that I can still keep in contact with him and create a strong bond between the two of us. Dear Kyle,
I feel that the two of us are very similar, we are creative in our own ways, and we love to express ourselves. Despite these similarities we seem to be trapped, separated like the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, ever destined to be so close to each other yet so far. Maybe they will see us as too powerful if we were to work well together. Despite these limitations I still get by. I do give you control of what I say sometimes. When I want to express strong emotions or opinions that's all you, I am bad at expressing myself in words. It is almost ironic, as if I have given you control over what to write in a letter to you. I would like to apologize to you for all of the bad interactions we have had in the past. It was mostly my fault for being too stuck up to admit that I needed your help. In recent years I have realized that I cannot do this without you and I am very lucky to have you, So thank you for being the little voice in my head that my friends say make my texts sound too formal. During the course of this semester i plan to try and communicate with my writer-self by keeping a notebook by my bed so that if I come up with something I want to write about or even vent about I can keep a record of it so that I don’t forget about what I wanted to write about. I also plan to talk with my writer-self more, not in the crazy person way, but in the way that it allows me to improve my everyday speech and break free of a lot of the slang that I use in everyday conversations. Sincerely, Conor
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Carlos Herrera
2/11/2020 03:04:19 pm
I like the steps you are thinking about taking to reconnect more with your author self. Especially when you said about talking to that author's side more often but not in like a crazy way. I also enjoyed your metaphor with you guys being Romeo and Juliet it really brought the picture more together.
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