I skipped the Trust 30 writing assignment yesterday. I just reread it and it's more interesting and thought provoking than I thought. Yesterday's writing exercise is called "Today". It's another wide open task, asking me to "describe today using one sentence." What's meant by today? The literal 24 hour period? Can today be more abstract and refer to the society that we live in with its values, behaviors, etc.? Should I use yesterday June 1, 2011 as the day in question? That was the day I received the email prompt.
Liz Danzico, the author of yesterday's writing prompt, brought up an interesting idea when she wrote "If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tracks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays." I don't know anything about sailing a ship. I guess the ship has to zigzag because the water is always moving around it. It moves back and forth in response to the water, but still gets to its destination. In the present moment it's going toward its destination, even if it just zigzagged.
I've spent a lot of time dwelling on my past. My previous writing assignment shows that. I was kinda depressed in the past because I internalized the insults and negativity of the past. At any point in time things weren't that bad. But I criticized myself for things I said or did in the past. Thanks be to God, I'm getting out from under that negativity.
Ok, so after all that, I haven't written a sentence to summarize today. I'm going to refer to today, June 2, 2011. I went to MATC to take their college placement test. I'm trying to get into a job training program with funding from the county job center. So, to summarize that experience in one sentence, I would say:
Today I found out that I'm not very good at algebra, and I'm ok with it.
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