Writers Dreaming

3. I agree with Angelou when she says that talking about bad things, such as bad dreams, gives them too much power. Talking about negative things fills our mind with bad thoughts, and in turn can cause us to be depressed or just give us a negative outlook on life. When you are feeding into negative energy like that, it does not matter if you are the happiest person on earth you will start to develop negative thoughts. Personally, when I feed in to drama or if I focus on nightmares too long, it starts to take a toll on my everyday life. I start to become afraid of sleeping, and I stress all the time because of the drama. In the end, I think it is just a better idea to avoid negative thoughts, and focus on all the good things in life! J

5. How Angelou decided to stop talking for five years, I will never know. I am a talker to an extreme. Your everyday chatty-Kathy. I recognize that I talk too much sometimes, especially when my ADHD acts up. I enjoy learning and talking about what I learn or talking about new experiences. If I spent more time listening and less time talking I am sure I would learn how to communicate better and altogether more efficiently. If I spoke more, I might be able to stand up for what I believe in more often, although it really isn’t a problem now. I would not be able to give up talking for five years because I like to have debates and discussions over many things. I tell many stories, so it would also be hard to give up that too. In the end, I think I could benefit from talking less but not from not talking at all.

7. In my life I would say I have a really fuzzy memory. My noggin is not to reliable when it comes to remembering stories or events from the past. I think it is better to be able to recall everything, instead of nothing, because at least you could learn from events that are awful instead of not learning from them and having to go through them again and again. The easiest things for me to remember are things I have done in the past year, but even those can get kind of fuzzy. It is nearly impossible to remember many things from my childhood. I remember the happy things better and more often than I remember bad, although I would say they are almost equally remembered. Almost.

8. When Angelou said, “There is a world of difference between truth and fact.” I believe it is a completely correct statement. I am taking college statistics, so I know it is incredibly easy to manipulate data or facts to make people believe something other than the truth. I was taught at a young age that letting people believe a lie without actually telling them one is still considered lying. So I believe it is completely possible to know all the facts and still have no idea as to what the truth really is.