QuickWrite of the Day #40: I wasn’t expecting that
"Writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives” (Gallagher, 2011: p. 24)
QuickWrite of the Day:
Sometimes when we face challenges in life, we discover unexpected things about ourselves: new likes/dislikes, unique qualities, a strength we never knew we had, a different sense of humour, a new way of seeing the world, or new and changed relationships.
With this in mind, what unexpected things have you discovered about yourself this year? What caused this discovery? What moments stand out to you when you think about this? What was it like before, during and after this discovery? Start with a list, then write!
For inspiration, check out the ‘moral of the story’ reflection of one of the characters from John Green’s book An Abundance of Katherines below:
“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees—breaking up isn’t something that gets done to you; it’s something that happens with you.”
