An Open Collection of Thoughts (Reflection)

An Open Collection of Thoughts

 Because a bulk of this realization for this post is similar to the last, there is an addendum to it at the end. From my previous essay “Nostalgic Irony”, I decided to expand upon the moment that personified the idea of living ideas. My mind is a jungle, the limbs of trees, thoughts, stretching far and wide, creating their own canopy. It’s a bit of a struggle to narrow onto a specific tree, a certain branch, a single leaf. This moment primarily focuses on wishes from said ideas I have inside of myself.

In this second essay, I really want to push the envelope. I have the capabilities to make an essay that is at least mostly comprehensible and abstract to the point of wowing another, including myself ironically, but I personally feel like I lack a certain form of coherence that I see from other mentor texts seen throughout the course. I want to elaborate on this moment so much so that I create something if not equal then better than my first essay.

In my first essay I used the essays Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle and Here is New York by E.B. White, and while I’m not completely certain which essay I feel the most comfortable incorporating over the other, Here is New York was the center focus of my last essay, so I feel that I will be steering away from any potential danger of not completing the point of the second essay: find a new idea. Joyas Voladoras then is a good fit, but in regards to the new essays we have available to us, I will try to embed the essays The Art of Failure by Malcolm Gladwell, because it paints a rather splendid image of trial and error that I feel works with my moment, and Language Choice by Young-Jin Park, because of its many personal testimonies. I also feel like I could try to incorporate the film The Five Obstructions because the method of recreation is another underlying theme within this new essay (although it isn’t precisely the main focus).

The bulk of my second essay is still in the process of being writing. My paper will try to begin with a very vivid introduction of a car driving through a winding road to reach a far destination or someone boarding a train to get off at a stop that the end up missing and work back to get where they need to be. This introduction will help personify the journey of reaching a conclusion whilst elaborating the moment I picked that’s about fluttering thoughts (i.e. “try this, go wherever”). The middle of the essay, other than introducing the previous texts and films I wish to incorporate, will foreshadow the central focus of the paper, and have a clear ending that I hope will be in likeness to my first essay.