Blog #1

While reading Anne Lamott’s Shitty First Drafts, I felt many of the worries I had experienced transitioning from high school to college slowly fade away. She helped remind me that even the greatest minds aren’t perfect, that even they don’t excel at something the first time they put their minds to it. As an honors student, I strive for perfection 110% of the time, and when I don’t achieve it, I begin to lose confidence in myself and start thinking that I’m not as intelligent as I believed I was. Lamott’s passage is making me realize that if I did things perfectly 24/7, I wouldn’t be human. These newfound ideas will aid me in my writing in this class, as I know that even if my first draft is utterly horrible, it’s just the beginning; I have a world of thoughts and ideas that I can connect to just one of those original pieces. I also began to understand that these ideas also apply to life. So, when I make a mistake or the wrong choice and end up somewhere that I hadn’t planned on, I’ll know that this moment in time is just my first draft, and I can build on those mistakes and use them to shape my life to become its most wonderful version.