Naipaul and his journey in literature

Writing is not an easy task. Not so much the act of picking a piece o paper and a pencil , but to make art of it it's not something anyone can do. In my personal experience it's something I find challenging.

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Naipaul tells us the story of his journey on becoming a writer. I founded interesting that from I young age, 11 years old, Naipaul knew his dream was to become. It's interesting because knowing what you want to be when you grow up at that age is something unusual. Some people don't even know until there third year of college. I remember my hole life I wanted to be an engineer and in my senior year of high school I just changed my mind and decided to go into pre-meds.

It's so amazing the format Naipaul uses for his autobiography. He tells his autobiography in away that engages you and it feels like I'm reading a fun story. Not an autobiography. The way he uses his characters as mirrors is just fascinating.

Something I learned from this reading is that if you want something so bad, you can reach it if you don't give up and commit to it. When Naipaul started writing he says he was extremely awful. That he couldn't find his voice and he was terrible at English composition. After a lot of years of hard work he finally found his voice. "To be successful you have to be persistent and the fist secret of perseverance is a good start"(Charles Atlas).

A Journey Journal

Inner journey

Being able to write everything I was feeling helped me so much. I felt like I had someone to speak too that would just listen without any kind of judgment. This journal helped me because at every entry I could see what was bothering me that day. This semester was and still is very hard. Writing in this journal helped relax and just organize my thoughts.

             For me it's hard to talk about my feelings. At the beginning whenever something related to my personal life popped in to my mind I tried to fight it out but in that stream of consciousness it always came back. I think writing in this journal helped me express better my feeling and not be scared to talk about them and even embrace them.

Outer journey

            At first it was hard following the anti rules. They just seem so unnatural to me. It was like going against what I've been taught since I can remember. Going back to fix a word or over thinking before writing was almost inevitable, but as I wrote more and more in the journal I was able to let go. At the end it was the opposite. I could just write without thinking. I was able to let go and just write exactly what I had in my mind.

            This assignment helped me in many ways. In my personal life and in my studies. For my personal life it helped me to vent and express my feelings. Like I've said before I've had I really though last three months. It also helped me taking notes in class. My first years in college it was hard for me when it came to taking notes. I spent too much times fixing my grammar and over thinking what I was writing. Now I can take notes really fast and just write what the professor is saying.

            For my life compasses my numbers were always low.  My highest number was 9 . My numbers where high whenever I was at my house with my family. At my house is where I feel safe and relax. Well most of the time.

            I enjoyed writing in my journal. I learned that I'm a person that whenever something is bothering me I can't stop thinking about it. Whatever I'm going through is always in the back of my mind. I also have allot of things in my mind. I change from subject to subject so fast. I'll probably try to keep a personal journal because I really loved writing one for this class. 

Life is a trip

The book "Life is a trip" was wrote by Judith Frein. In this book she tells us the story about many places she has travel too and her perspective of this adventures. In this book we can see what traveling can do to a person. How it can change us and shift our point of view. Traveling can make or brake a person. 

Chapter 5 was the one that really surprised me. The name of this chapter is "Searching for forgiveness in Vietnam". This chapter really shocked me because I would never would have guess that Vietnam was able to let go and look pass what the United States did to them. In this trip she learned how important forgiveness is and in order to close your wounds you have to let go and forgive who ever hurt you. 

I can agree with the author. Traveling has a huge impact on our personality and our ways of viewing life. When we go out of the environment we are used to and see how different the world is. It really change us. Sometimes it makes us wan't to work more and see that we can do better for our country but also it can teach us to be grateful for what we have.

In my experience I went to Cuzco, Peru this January with a group of students from the chapter M.E.D.L.I.F.E. We went to give free health care to the people in need. The first night I was in Lima, which is the capital of Peru, I cried my eyes out. It was so sad and shocking to see in how terrible conditions this people live but yet they still treat you with so much respect and love. 

I was in Cuzco for a week. One of the days we went to a place that was more or less like four hours away from where most of the Cuzco civilization lives. It was so shocking to see in the conditions this people live. Most if not all of the children had worms. For me this was a life changing experience.