My narrative centered around what I consider my ‘positive feedback loop’ to learning, where I would read in order to fulfill my learning desires, and continuously read and learn more. I’d go as far as to say that my ongoing process of reading and learning not only shapes the way I read and write, but also my personal identity.
Although the cycle seems to be a clear and important part of my life, it would’ve been difficult to discover without the pre-writing process. The pre-writing process wasn’t strange on its own – it was mainly the fact that I had never really engaged in such a process before. However, it was certainly effective in idea generation and getting me into a free-flowing state during writing. I almost wrote my entire narrative in one sitting, without even thinking much about it. The writer’s block that I usually face was entirely eliminated from my writing process.
Throughout my literary narrative, I didn’t necessary learn anything new about myself – it was more so that I learned to appreciate the way my perspective on reading and writing has ebbed and flowed. However, I did find the hindsight bias within myself surprising. Looking back, my evolution in the way I read and write seems so obvious, almost like a linear path. However, the actual process was filled with lots of confusion and wondering whether I’d ever improve in what I was doing.
Ultimately, from an outside perspective, I believe that the most interesting sentence from my essay is: “However, something about this achievement made me feel empty.” With the achievement in question being my commitment to Emory’s men’s soccer team. It was a good hook into the rest of my story which provided a deeper answer to questions that may have arisen from that statement, such as “why would anyone feel empty after completing an otherwise fulfilling/cull-circle achievement?”
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