10/17/07

My personal essay is about how you can't make anyone else happy unless you're happy, to live life happily, and to take control over your life. The details do remain true to the focus of to live life happily.
At the moment there are no facts that I am uncertain to be true.
I haven't made any changes in setting, time, or sequence.
I don't remember word for word of what I wrote since I threw out my journals so I just filled in the blanks of what I do remember.
I have written my experiences and am in no way like Frey.
I may have left some things out for two reasons. If I kept writing everything I wanted to say it would turn into a book and there are some things I'm just not ready to say to the world.
I do not suspect any resort to psychological defense.
I do not detect any hedges, evasions, revisions in my writing.I didn't really select any details to make my story sound more dramatic or anything of the sort.
I think that my tone does reveal my relationship with my material to set my reader into the right mood and to give them an idea of what they are about to read.
And I don't think I'm holding anything back in what I wrote by it not becoming as long as a book. I'm keeping out what I don't think is necessarily needed for it right now. But what I did write is the truth even though some people would disagree because I really never let anyone know how I felt or what was going on.