Personal Narrative: One Art By Elizabeth Bishop

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Life is about overcoming the difficulties that are thrown into our path along the way, and it is up to us in how we deal with it. Some of these problems can be caused by our own longing and self-worth, and we might not want to overcome it due to pride and stubbornness, and maybe that’s how we will live out the rest of our life: running away or sulking. It is our life, afterall, and if that is the way we want to live it, then so be it. What if you want to overcome it, though? What if you want to be able to handle whatever gets in your way? It can be painful, it can be difficult, but it can also be satisfying and a relief. Everybody has a different way with dealing with their issues.

In the poem One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, the protagonist is somebody who can easily manage the conflict they are faced …show more content…

I don’t like it when I have to experience loss or tackle my self-worth. I don’t want to wait for it to get better, and I see no possible way for me to make it come quicker. I have lost friends, pets, family, and places that I have loved so much, and I try as hard as I can to accept the fact that I can’t get back to when I didn’t have those things gone, that it can be better even though things I love are no longer in my life, but it’s hard. It hurts. I don’t want to feel this way anymore, but I don’t want to end it by ending myself. I’ve tried, and it just caused more harm. Life is not fair in the slightest and is honestly the worst thing to experience, but it’s also the only thing I will ever experience, so why don’t I just get dragged through? The best I can do is crawl through this road that my longing and barely there self-worth has created for me, and maybe one day I will be able to get on my two feet and start running down it, and I know for sure that my ankle will get caught on something and make me fall down again, but if I’m already this low, there isn’t much lower I can go to stop

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