Reflect

          I have always been a very practical person. My field of expertise relies on Physics and Mathematics, therefore, anything that wouldn’t involve numbers and formulas would automatically push me away from it. To be sincere, I was very reluctant to be a part of a class that revolves around poetry or literature in general. I have always found reading novels and poems, or even writing my own thoughts, a very tedious task. I guess I have never searched for inspiration before, or nothing has ever inspired me either.

I must admit, the first assignment given, “Antigone” was very scary because I had no idea what to do. I had never read a play before, nor paid attention to details as I had to do for this assignment. I called my girlfriend for help, and with her constant patience and dedication, she showed me the best ways to express my words at the moment of writing about the play.

Little by little, word by word and sentence by sentence I started to get more involved with the world of Literature. Thanks to this class, now I am more open to reading and even expressing my own thoughts on paper. I started getting comfortable with plays and short stories. I even enjoyed some of them, such as “The Interpreter of Maladies” Unfortunately, not everything remains perfect. My least favorite genre in literature came up: Poetry. All that went through my head was “shoot me now!” I have always hated poetry because I thought of it as something so ridiculous and corny. “What in Heaven will a Mathematician do with poetry?” Little did I know, poetry was not only about how the moon reminded him of her, or how the red rose resembled her lips! There was a vast, dark, whole new world that I had been missing for such long time. Poetry is rich and interesting because I can write and rhyme about almost anything and make it sound beautiful just by applying a specific tone to it. I did not know any of this, until I came across with College Writing 102, instructed by Professor Brady.

        After taking this class I have become a warmer creature. I am much more sensitive to words and their meaning. Also, I can now interpret people and their situations by the way they speak. Now I know that, if I read “The curtains were blue”, there might be a whole lot more behind that expression than its literal meaning. 

I have become hungry for literature, for I know it will help me improve as a human being. In five years, I will be more aware of my surroundings. Also, I will be able to establish smarter and more sensitive conversations with the people around me. Moreover, I know I will be a better thinker because I will be able to analyze situations, not only in a practical way which is natural in me, but in addition, I will now be able to encounter with the poetic, romantic and gentle side of everything that happens in my life.