Leaving " the third rock from the sun" is something that i have never ever really thought about. Nor is it something that I ever really want to think about. I guess when i think about how i want to be remembered there are so many different people that come to mind. They way your remembered by your family is never the same as how your remembered by your friends, co-workers, or children if you get to have them.
I guess when i think about leaving this earth there are a few key things that are EXTREMELY important to me. For one that would be fulfilling all of my goals and dreams. I would also want everyone i knew and know to be happy. Ever since I was a child i have dreamed of growing up and getting married, having a family, and living a happy life with a job i had worked very hard to get. I don't think i would ever want to leave with out this all happening. To me the way I am remembered by my family is one of the most important things. I would really want my parents to remember me as a responsible and well rounded person. As a child the have raised me teaching me everything that they know as well as giving me my personal space to find my own room to grow. My parents both taught me lessons and allowed me to learn some of them on my own. I would want my Aunts, Uncles, grandparents and cousins to remember me as that happy, outgoing crazy person I am. One thing that my family has taught me is to never judge, this may be due to them feelingits inappropiate or from them knowing that if they were to judge me they would be like OH WOW. If i get married and have kids, I would never want them to think of me as anything but caring, understanding, and grateful. One thing i have learned on my own is to be grateful for what I have and i hope that one day i can pass this lesson on to my own family. And by family i dont just mean children but a husband, i really would want to work hard at having an amazing relationship. In which my life partner could remember me as that special person, the one that made him smile or helped to brighten his day. As well i would like a husband to remember all the memories that we made together and to continue teaching if we have them children about me and the things i did and what i was like.
Another important group of people are my friends, and all the people i have met through out my life. The way they remember me is always important as well. Everyone has bad days, but i would really hope that they would be able to find a way to remember me as that one of a kind person I am. One thing I find very hard to understand about other people is how they can not smile and laugh. I always try my best to make sure the people i am around can smile at least once. Laughing is one of the most important things to me, if someone asked me what an unhealthy person looked like my answer would be no smiling and no laughing. I hope that all my friends and aquantinces could remember me as that kind of a person. I would love it if when someone thought of me they pictured a smile.
In short i would want to be remembered as a loving, hardworking, smiling, laughing, outgoing, spontaneous, overall crazy individual.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
"write what you know"
I think that everyone knows alot of various things. We all learn things based on our own personal experiences, some things are learned through reading and some through hands on activities. Although i have only had 17 years of experinces, the amount of things i have experienced and seen are incredible. These things become comforts in which my own writting can fall back on. For example travelling, as a child I went all over Ontario. this have now allowed me to have a comfort in writting about the nature of the north, the difference in the economies as well as different personalities. Being shown all these different things gives you a great idea on how to both judge and create characters. Everywhere I look i am able to see different types of people, this becomes a fantastic thing when i can incorporate personality traits i have witnessed with the personal of my fictional characters. I have worked in numerous places and been in far more akward situations that i would ever dream of being in. But all the information i take of situations can lead to a genre of a story. The genre's i am most comfortable writing are romance, children, or mystery. I think that this may be due to the fact that i am interested in these topics. As well as that i am interseted in reading and talking about these style of genres.
There are still many more genres, characters, settings, issues, topics, and experiences that i would really enjoy researching to be able to write about them. The things i really would be interested in researching so i could potentially one day write about would be different countries. I would love to one day be able to write a story about the way people in England, Ireland or even Africa live. I would even be interested in travelling to these places so that i could get an idea of what types of charcters they may be. Many people in Canada are welcoming and i've always wondered would someone in Ireland have these same mannerisms. I think that the potenial for differences in amazing and I really would enjoy furthuring my knowledge on this. Another amazing possability for me would be leaning about different world issues that I could use to write about. I have never been big on following world issues but i always thought that they would put an interesting spin on my own personal writings. I think that if the struggles of the economy were incorporated in my stories that theywould almost have more life.
There always will be specific topics i should avoid when writing. I suppose that everyone has limitations, the hard part is noticing your limitations. Personally i feel that some of my largest limits are characters. Although i have and met so many people in my life it is very hard to create a character with out a good sense of judgement. I would never want to creat a character that someone else would read about and feel offended. My second limitation is setting. Creating a setting becomes difficult when you have not seen alot of places. Creating a setting involves mental imaging, and i hope that i never write about a place and the people who live there become angered due to my one sided view.
There are still many more genres, characters, settings, issues, topics, and experiences that i would really enjoy researching to be able to write about them. The things i really would be interested in researching so i could potentially one day write about would be different countries. I would love to one day be able to write a story about the way people in England, Ireland or even Africa live. I would even be interested in travelling to these places so that i could get an idea of what types of charcters they may be. Many people in Canada are welcoming and i've always wondered would someone in Ireland have these same mannerisms. I think that the potenial for differences in amazing and I really would enjoy furthuring my knowledge on this. Another amazing possability for me would be leaning about different world issues that I could use to write about. I have never been big on following world issues but i always thought that they would put an interesting spin on my own personal writings. I think that if the struggles of the economy were incorporated in my stories that theywould almost have more life.
There always will be specific topics i should avoid when writing. I suppose that everyone has limitations, the hard part is noticing your limitations. Personally i feel that some of my largest limits are characters. Although i have and met so many people in my life it is very hard to create a character with out a good sense of judgement. I would never want to creat a character that someone else would read about and feel offended. My second limitation is setting. Creating a setting becomes difficult when you have not seen alot of places. Creating a setting involves mental imaging, and i hope that i never write about a place and the people who live there become angered due to my one sided view.
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