Usually, I prefer to avoid commenting on my own work, because the whole process is rather difficult. How does one talk about his or her own writing without selling himself short or, on the opposite extreme, sounding arrogant? But, I felt the need to say something about my narrative, because the story I am telling means so much to me.
To give a general idea, my narrative describes two fights between me and a friend of mine, one in which I am angry at him and another in which he is angry at me. I then explain that we fight all the time (really, all the time!) and describe how our entire friendship relies on the concept of forgiveness.
My thoughts while writing this piece were set strictly on forgiveness. There are some hints at swallowing feelings, but, in my opinion, to achieve forgiveness the first thing you must do is swallow your feelings. I used a lot of words that I don't typically use in everyday speech, because I was trying to subtly emphasize that it is not an everyday friendship. I used dialogue to vividly describe what our fights are like. I added lines like, "It wasn't okay, but he forgave me anyway" to the mix to show how high the levels of forgiveness were. Yes, I mostly freewrote this, because that is how I write, but not a single word on this paper was not carefully weighed and tested before it reached the page.
Before I began to write, I told myself one thing.
"I will do this friendship justice."
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