ENGW 1100 Writing Skills Workshop
9/3/14
The items that define me as a person are my field hockey stick and my blanket. I don't think that only one thing could describe anyones personality. People often have more than one trait and demonstrate different traits in certain situations. For example I am an athlete. My field hockey stick describes me as not only an athlete but a little rough around the edges. Just like my stick I am bruised and missing pieces. Also just like my stick I am solid. Full of different components that have made me so heavy and dangerous. I am an athlete. I am damaged. I am solid. Those are not my only traits though. When I step off the field I do carry these traits with me but then I lay in bed with my blanket which is so much different than my stick. Soft, warm and vulnerable. Unlike a field hockey stick blankets often don't take being slammed and ripped at very well. Over years they tear and loose their color and buoyancy. My blanket is the side of me that is soft. When I am curled up in bed I am no longer rough, I no longer flex my muscles to push off others and assert my dominance as I do on the field. I am vulnerable. A blanket cannot push others away it invites them. When I feel sad or lonely I go to the my blanket with its open arms, warm and soft. The things that define me aren't just objects they are apart of me. My stick is mine, no one else's. I carry it with me with pride. It often protects me from other sticks and I reward it with goals. Goals that will remain that sticks forever, no other stick I may ever own will be able to claim the goals that my stick has touched, hit, or drove in. Just like no other blanket can ever have the tears and the nights of sleep that my blanket has had. No one will ever be me or take my identity, and the things I've done away from me.
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