1) After watching history being made last night, I have this overwhelming feeling of patriotism inside of me. I woke up this morning and this idea popped inside my head! I kind of want to write about something that deals with the USA. I'm leaning more towards the significance of colors, in particular the colors of red, white, and blue. Just like "Laundry" wherein the author wrote about her personal experiences, then jumping to how it has evolved over history and how people have used it, I want to do research on how the colors got associated with the two major parties in the US (democrat & republican) and I guess how those colors relate to my life (red -- blood and how I don't like blood, blue -- cold, being frozen, whatever!) I just think it would be cool doing research and actually finding out what these colors mean and why they are so significant, especially now.
2) Keys! Keys are important because they open locked doors, or can be a symbol for the future --> keys to success, whatever. Keys are significant to all of us because without it, we can't open doors and enter a new world.
3) Boxes! I've moved around a total of 12 times during my life. I've always been surrounded by boxes because my life pretty much goes into a box every 2-3 years. I don't know what to write about here, but I have an idea...can't really put it all down right now since you're all waiting to read this, so post any comments, please!! It'll surely help me move along.
Thanks everyone!!
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I appreciate everyone's comments and I think I'm going to write about boxes. I'll save the other two ideas for essay #4. After living in our current house for more than 2 years, we actually still have a whole room dedicated to unopened boxes. My parents know that we don't need these things anymore, yet we still haven't discarded any of them. Here's what' I'm planning on including in my essay. It's a really MESSY list but I hope by getting it all down, it'll help me along the way.
- My parents coming to America when I was a year old and my sister only 3 months old. They brought with them x amount of boxes from the Philippines when we moved to Hawaii. They always tell us stories of how hard it was lugging around boxes from here to there with two kids attached at the hip. I guess I'll start with these few boxes...what's inside and it's importance. Do my parents still have any of these things that they first brought with them to America? Hmm...I guess we'll see.
- I can write about the move from Hawaii to California...the first move to the "mainland". I was 7 years old and that was the first time I realized that I was going to start a new life, leaving my old friend and everything that I grew up knowing behind. The only things that were of importance to me at that age were my stuffed animals. Where are they now?? I guess we'll see.
- Living in Houston and waiting to move to Canada. We didn't move to Canada but we were supposed to. We put everything in boxes and it stayed there for a good 4 months. Why? I don't know.
- I can also talk about getting used to moving and how my family became expert "packers".
- Labeling boxes (clothes, shoes, school files, etc.) What is it's significance? Which one do I open up first?
- Moving from Detroit to Elizabeth, NJ. Being so eager to unpack everything because our house was big.
- Move from NJ to LIC, NY = from a big house to a "tiny" one. Why do we still have so many boxes? Why haven't we opened them yet?
** possible focus: (thanks Lauren) my relationship to boxes; fear of unpacking boxes in fear that I might move again; starting over, etc.
5 comments:
Hey, I have to agree with you on that. i do recall a famous person saying we are no longer blue and red, we are now purple. so maybe u can do something with that. i like ur idea. i wrote about keys too. i have all sorts of keys and keychains and they came from all different places. i think whatever u decide to write about you will be fine =)
Boxes...go with the boxes. The story seems more compelling and personal. That's the one that made me think, "Hmm, why did she move a lot?" and "What story do these boxes have to tell?" and "What's inside these boxes?"
Boxes...go with the boxes.
i think i would pick the story with boxes. you could tell a story about some of the places you have moved from and how its changed or influenced your life. knowing tha ur always moving does it keep you closed off to making relationships since you might move again anytime soon? do you keep thingsboxed up in fear that your going to move or d u unwrap everything immediatly anxious to start a new life and a new identity to people who know nothing about you.. i think that this could be a great story!
I like the ideal of you writing about colors and it will be good for you to incorporate you personal experience with the colors you choose.
sue
ok love the box idea....but the keys are soooo great too(against popular opinion) But each key opens something, what did they open in your life for example lets say a gym locker key it opens the locker but in there could be so much more( like the meaning of kickboxing)but just an idea.
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