Parl I: Period of Desperation

"Everything, including my health, was at the tipping point. I lost my appetite, sometimes eating one meal or none per day. My interests drifted away – I stopped reading, playing sports, and seeing friends."

Part II: Awakening

"For a good while, I thought I could never appreciate life and enjoy literature again but I did. I encountered Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream in my English class. It was like a precious vase of water in a desert."

Part III: Enactment and Acquisition

" I plunged into writing like a person who dives without remembering that he or she doesn’t know how to swim, except that I didn’t dive into a swimming pool, but the Pacific Ocean off a cliff.

Part IV: Self-Identification

"Do I really need to be here? Am I not good enough and that’s why I feel suffocated in this environment? What if I am not meant to be one of these kids?”, my insecurity questioned in circles without a landing."

Part V: Liberation

"And thank you, Grief."

WRITER'S EVOLUTION

An account of how Grief drives and challenges my journey with writing