Integrative Seminar: Bridge 1 Memoir

“Going home and moving on from this all has left me with a new sense of self worth, and a new grasp on relationships, romantic or not. It taught me a lot. I realized the ways in which I communicate and that I need to find someone that will have a better sense of understanding. I now know not to ignore red flags when they repeatedly pop up. I know that I can’t change anyone who doesn’t want to grow themselves, and to not even attempt to, because that’s something people have to do on their own. I am in a better place than I was in that relationship. I feel like although what I went through was bad, I came out of it and it changed me for the better.”

The experience of writing a memoir for the very first time was very eye opening and almost therapeutic for me. It helped me open up about a topic that I don’t normally discuss, but in a way that was healing for me. Being able to write about it, and really think through and analyze the situation, and turn it into the art of writing, was an effective way of using a creative outlet to make something good out of a situation that was bad. It allowed me to be vulnerable to the reader in a way that I had not yet tried before. I came to many realizations while writing that helped me develop a sense of a personal writing style. Ive realized I love the use of imagery within a story to help strengthen the reader’s understanding of the situation, and I loved the element of the made-up setting of an island which I had used to include a larger metaphor within, symbolizing my past and how I had felt so stuck in a relationship that was not good for me.

I had included two photos at the end of the memoir, one of my aura and the other of me and my mother on the night before I moved away from home for the very first time. I decided to include these to show the person that I am now, changed. I’ve grown from my state of uncertainty and insecurity and now I’m beaming with shades of bright yellow and orange, happy and optimistic colors. It has also immensely strengthened my relationship with my mother, after this all I’d consider her someone I can go to about everything and anything, she’s one of my best friends.

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