Breaking the Cage
Date: May 30th, 2008 8:51:23 pm - Subscribe
Mood: changed
Currently Reading: Lord of the Flies ( ISBN: 0-571-05686-5 ): Reading
Since I was old enough to string two words together I've had a talent for writing. Not speaking so much, but given adequate time to think and an open word document I've always been good at expressing my thoughts, feelings, views, and painting a rather vivid picture for anyone who read my work. Over the years I spent my time developing these skills mostly through poetry and short stories, entering various contests and winning a good deal of them. My English teachers encouraged me and my family gave me ample support to perfect my talent.
Yet as with anyone blessed with any sort of skill I felt like it was squandered. Our inadequate school system here in America attempted to cage the skills I had worked so hard to learn. To force it into a small box that better suited their desires and needs for sheep like conformity rather then diversity and creativity. There was a plan, a structure, a format and anything outside of it was wrong, wrong, wrong! A slap on the hand for anyone who dared to say otherwise.
Few of my teachers struggled and fought to help me, and others like me, from folding over with the pressure. From inside their own little boxes ( for the students are not the only victims of public schools herd like mentality ) they would push us and provide us with whatever resources they could scavenge to remove the poison slowly being injected into our thinking processes. Unfortunately for me it wasn't enough.
Through my own cowardice, self defeat, and ignorance I drove myself to my own destruction and allowed the poison to control me. I lay down in my nice little cage and let them close the latch effectively killing my ability and desire to write. But that was then, and this is now, and I'm tired of the slob that I've allowed myself to become. I'm ready to break out of this cage and regain what I once had. My hope is that with this blog I may practice my rusty skills and regain what I allowed to be taken from me.
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