Blog #7 - Serena Cecere

I liked the part of Murray's article about Self-Exposure.  When I write anything, I hope that I'm leaving a part of myself in it so others can get a feel for the kind of person i am and so they can better understand me.  I've recently started to write about things that bother me or things that upset me;  anything that really keeps me up at night I've started to put on paper-and by paper i mean digital paper. But I've come to find that I really enjoy doing so because it often helps me find answers to the questions I'm too scared to admit I have, or to the fears I don't want to face.  So the part where he says how the writer speaks about their "hidden or suppressed thoughts and feelings" and how it's the strength of an essay, really resonated with me because I understand exactly what he was talking about.

I recently lost two very close family members so when the author speaks about how she wrote about her daughters death, it made me think about my experience. My family and I don't really talk about feelings, we never have, and being that I'm 6 hours from home now, I don't think we're about to start. I've had a tough time trying to handle my loss and being practically isolated from my family now, has made it a lot harder on me.  Murray's advise has made me realize that maybe I should start writing about that traumatic event.  I was told to do so right from the start, but I never took it seriously, like Murray, it was too private for me. The only reason I'm even writing about it now is because for some weird reason I still feel like no one actually reads my blogs. But basically, seeing how the author wrote about losing his kid has kind of inspired me to try to write about the loss of my family members, maybe it'll help me get some clarity and hopefully, if anyone else was to read it, it would in turn help them.