Comments on: My Best Piece of Writing Ever http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:10:32 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Litty http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Litty Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:16:51 +0000 http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/#comment-26 Thanks for the honest comments and a great question by Hayden. I would never be able to write something like this today. I don’t see the world through the same lens that I did then and my view of how I fit into my own environment has greatly changed. Back then it broke my heart that I wasn’t able to relate to many of my friends at my deepest level. I didn’t get that not everyone viewed life the same way that I did. I thought that writing this essay was my way of stating everyone’s true feelings when it was really only my own views. It seems like I attack my friends and peers in the essay. My little sister Courtney read it for the first time today and said she couldn’t believe I sent it out to my friends. My intent then (although I wasn’t quite skilled enough to fully pull it off) and my understanding now was that I was attacking myself for not living up to my own expectations. I think most of my friends that knew me well enough got that. I wasn’t all that close with Perry at the time and I completely understood where he was coming from then and I do now. In the last seven years I have fundamentally shifted how I see the world. Each person lives their own life to their own expectations in their own way. I’m not really in position to judge anybody but myself and perhaps the few people I feel like I truly know and understand. Therefore, I would never judge other people through the paradigm I set in this people. If people are truly happy with how their life has progressed than they have succeeded. It’s for them to judge, not me. I do still think that I live my life to the set of standards I write about in the paper. So I guess the big question is: Have I strived to push myself to the limits in both my professional and social life since I wrote this paper? Thanks for the honest comments and a great question by Hayden. I would never be able to write something like this today. I don’t see the world through the same lens that I did then and my view of how I fit into my own environment has greatly changed. Back then it broke my heart that I wasn’t able to relate to many of my friends at my deepest level. I didn’t get that not everyone viewed life the same way that I did. I thought that writing this essay was my way of stating everyone’s true feelings when it was really only my own views.

It seems like I attack my friends and peers in the essay. My little sister Courtney read it for the first time today and said she couldn’t believe I sent it out to my friends. My intent then (although I wasn’t quite skilled enough to fully pull it off) and my understanding now was that I was attacking myself for not living up to my own expectations. I think most of my friends that knew me well enough got that. I wasn’t all that close with Perry at the time and I completely understood where he was coming from then and I do now.

In the last seven years I have fundamentally shifted how I see the world. Each person lives their own life to their own expectations in their own way. I’m not really in position to judge anybody but myself and perhaps the few people I feel like I truly know and understand. Therefore, I would never judge other people through the paradigm I set in this people. If people are truly happy with how their life has progressed than they have succeeded. It’s for them to judge, not me. I do still think that I live my life to the set of standards I write about in the paper.

So I guess the big question is: Have I strived to push myself to the limits in both my professional and social life since I wrote this paper?

]]> By: Sweet P http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Sweet P Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:27:08 +0000 http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/#comment-25 It is strange to think that I am the friend who felt this essay was an overgeneralized misrepresentation. I read it now and agree with it wholeheartedly (as it applies to past and present). Sadly, little has changed (with the exception of my perception). It is strange to think that I am the friend who felt this essay was an overgeneralized misrepresentation. I read it now and agree with it wholeheartedly (as it applies to past and present). Sadly, little has changed (with the exception of my perception).

]]> By: H Gold http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-24 H Gold Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:33:32 +0000 http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/#comment-24 So it is now 7 years later, you have seen what your friends have done professionally and socially. Do you still feel the same way??? So it is now 7 years later, you have seen what your friends have done professionally and socially. Do you still feel the same way???

]]> By: Ess http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Ess Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:29:12 +0000 http://www.blog.littyhoops.com/2007/03/06/my-best-piece-of-writing-ever/#comment-23 Right on hoops--incredible insight from a freshman. The truth is, laziness was sadly part of our college experience. Now that time is a much more precious resource, we realize. Right on hoops–incredible insight from a freshman. The truth is, laziness was sadly part of our college experience. Now that time is a much more precious resource, we realize.

]]>