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(Sigh) writers choice. This piece took me the longest to select. My overall goal for this piece was to represent all that I had learned in this class, and since I struggled with this class all the way through, I found it funny that I would choose a piece from the middle. I chose my writers choice piece from the identity unit under “How did we manage to survive adolescence?”

I chose this post because I found an underlying message that applies to me when I was re reading over my works. It’s a message of growth and how you take the things that life throws at you. In my posting I refer to two writers with very different approaches to their life in high school; I find both approaches poor and unworthy of consideration. Both have failed to recognize their time in high school as a learning experience and have either gained enough false pride to put them above it or are still living with it. Being in high school, this was an interesting approach even for myself.

Throughout this quarter I have felt inferior, above, and subject to my high school and its expectations of myself. I have lost hours of sleep over my demands as student, friend, leader, employee, and family member. And when I read over this post in hopes that it might make a good writers choice I had to laugh at the one message I failed to address.

High school ends.

The growth in my writing is directly related to my growth as a person. I spoke in my reflection letter about how up until this class I felt that school was against me. And it’s for that very reason I chose this post. In it I shared my remedy for the fears that I face in my life, it is only a wonder why I didn’t use it when it came to the very class I posted it in. This piece shows the reality of my self conscious, and how when I least expect it I can verbally shame myself.

The bolded parts are where I feel I verbally shamed myself.