The Assailant
Shifa B.
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Although this work is classified as non-fiction, the elements of the writing are personal to me and reflect moments during the span of this year where I felt my sadness had transformed into anger. While experiencing the emotion, I felt that whenever I looked at someone, all I could see was their flaws because of how ”corrupted” my mind was, almost like there was a negative lens that had been turned on. My favorite line from this piece is, ”and for the first time, everyone was a word without a meaning.” This was a line that I wrote within one of the moments so when I read it now, I can not quite understand what it means. I just know by validating those words, I can heal some part of myself.
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Creativity to me means allowing ones self to accept the parts of them that they find ugly and turning those flaws into something beautiful. Essentially, embracing their uniqueness to contribute to the world. For me, the aspects of myself that I find unsettling, is what I write about.
