A Thousand Words

Silver skies became the norm. Soaking socks, muddy soles, damp cloth. Walks to class turned into month-long journeys. Miserable. The gray possessed every item around. It was in the earth, it was in the trees, it was in the sky, it was in the hearts. Fashion choices become whatever is warm and water resistant. The joy was on vacation, leaving exhaustion and dreariness to substitute. Will it ever end? Suddenly, golden light bursts through the clouds. It kisses the face, makes it glow. Off come the soaking socks, muddy soles, and damp cloth. Visions of colorful dresses dance around at the sight of it. The world shines in all its vibrancy. Joy comes home from vacation. Ocean colored blue stretches from horizon to horizon. Who ever knew it existed? Smiles flash brighter than it all. The heart is content again, eager for adventure. Even if it only lasts for a moment, the light becomes worth the dark filled wait.

Many elder generations whom did not grow up in the world of technology find it to have tarnished the so called good name of life's offerings. We could sit around and argue all day about if new technology is healthy or not for our society, but honestly, there is no point. Life moves in a forward direction, never back. Every aspect of everything we know is changing, including our world of writing. Nowadays, information is at everyone's fingertips. It is able to be retrieved in seconds. It is no wonder how that changes the way we write. If anything, it has made it more competitive. Since information can be so quickly created, published, and retrieved thanks to the internet, becoming a fully functional writer has gotten much more difficult of achieve. However, this does not mean that the internet has not aided with such a goal either. It has become much easier to get your works out there. You can post, create websites, and contact others in the blink of an eye. All it takes is a ...

Fui a la luna. Pensé a tu. Fui al oceon, pensé a tu. Asique, llevaré una estrella para ti. Y un piedro especial del ocean para ti. Te quiero. Tienes mi corazón. ¿Puedo tener su corazón?

Surround me like an ocean. Engulf me in Your love. Sun beams reach down. Their warmth hugs me gently. Keep my head above the waves. Afraid of becoming fully submerged. What lies under the surface is murky. Creatures lurk below, only in my imagination. Frantically swimming in search of You. Fear of finding the bottom. Fear You're there too. An easier world lies above. A place to breathe. A place to float. However, it is ordinary. Water does not touch the sky. Not the way I want it to. Fear of the unknown. A world down under I have yet to see. Knowing I'll find You, but not willing to. Must accept that I must drown before I can breathe.

Clearly grammar is a big part of writing. Knowing how to punctuate, what tense to use, and so on shows the professional aspects to a piece of writing. However how necessary is it? Does it need to be stressed in the classroom? Or does it all depend on the type of writing being taught? I have a minor pet peeve. One that definitely exposes my writer's heart. That pet peeve is poor grammar. The many times that I have been asked to grade/review someone else's paper, I get joy and feel disgust at fixing the many many grammatical errors in it. Is this because I have been taught that grammar is everything? And when one does not possess the proper grammar skills, they are less intelligent? Sometimes I think to myself, "What is this monster they made me into?". Obviously, grammar does matter. Knowing the difference between your and you're can simply solve many miscommunications. It is important to know the language if you are going to be wielding it at the tip of your p...

It seems like a logical, but ancient idea that our genders influence the way we write. Someone might say that women write more emotional and men write more logically and factually. While in some cases this may be true, it cannot be said for men and women writers as a whole. The truth of the matter is that it is our culture that influences the way we write. If we grow up in a culture where men are not emotional and women are, the roles will be assumed by each gender. This is not because they simply feel they are emotional or not, it is because they want to fit into society and not be deemed a strange and unique person. Gender roles and personality traits are simply just a part of culture. Honestly, men can be very emotional, and women can not be at all. It all depends on the individual. This is what makes writing so beautiful. The individual gets to speak, not the gender, the race, the country in which they live, but them. The one person gets to have a voice different than anyone else...

Maturation is something all humans go through in some form or another as they grow. However, there is something very different between physical maturity and emotional maturity. While psychical maturity is something the vast majority of individuals undergo, the emotional part does not seem to reach nearly as many.  Now, I am just speaking from personal experience. From the world I have gotten to know over the past nineteen years, I have discovered that many people I am growing with are not as mature as others. This can be especially hard when forming relationships. Not having the emotional maturity to deal with certain situations like stress, new people, and jealousy can seriously hold someone back from forming a healthy relationship with themselves and others.  When I was in 6th grade, I made an insecure friend. Since I had not matured yet, I became insecure with her. However, after she hurt me enough times, I discovered myself and gained a great deal of emotional maturity....