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Personal Reflection: Reading and Writing

 

            I have mixed feelings about reading and writing. Well, not as much reading as writing. As long as I have been reading, I have been enjoying it. Writing, on the other hand, is often dull. I suppose it's a matter of creativity.
             I spend quite a bit of time reading. My favorite genre is fantasy, though I read quite a bit of science fiction, philosophy, science, poetry, short stories and educational papers - papers about computer technology, mathematics, and everywhere in between. Basically there are two reasons I read: to get lost in a story, and to learn. Neither one is more significant than the other, though more of the reading I do is to get lost in a story.
             As for writing, there was a long time when it was an avoided-if-possible chore. In elementary school, it was an experience that lacked creativity; there were too many strict guidelines. The assignments were all "write about anything, but in this way", but I didn't like that way, so I would use it as more of a rough guideline. Later I would be told "no you should do it this way". That killed the writing experience for me, at least for a while.
             It wasn't until ninth grade that I found out writing could be artistic, but even then it wasn't too pleasurable. Eventually, I don't really remember when, probably sometime in tenth grade, I found the joy of expressing my self in words, namely in poetry. That completely changed my perspective of the writing process.
             I can't think of anything else to say about reading or writing, so I guess this is the end. How do you end a paper like this? How about a good quote, those are supposed to be useful for ending papers, here's one that seems fitting. Mark Twain once said, "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.".
            


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