Writers Dreaming

Writers Dreaming

Question)            Angelou says she doesn’t even like to talk about her bad dreams because talking about them “gives them too much power”. Do you think talking about bad dreams, or bad news, or other bad things gives those bad things more power? When have you known this to happen?

Answer)             I don’t think that you should talk about the bad things that happened to you in your life much. Why dwell on what has already happened? It’s not like you can change it. I think that you should tell someone about it if it really bothers you or if it’s something serious, but other than that, just forget about it and move on. These bad memories and dreams could make your life sad and miserable so you cannot let them win. So yes, I think that talking about the things that upset you or make you afraid consistently gives them power over you. This happens a lot today with social media, giving people access to your fears and insecurities. When someone says something bad about us, it generally gets to us. Making us upset.

Question)            After going through a major trauma at age seven, Angelou didn’t talk for almost five years. Could you live this way? Do you talk too much, or too little? What could you learn if you listen more and spoke less? How could you grow as a person by speaking more?

Answer)               Everyone deals with trauma in their own way. Angelou just chose not to speak. Some of us choose to compartmentalize, some resort to drugs and drinking, and others become angry. I personally wouldn’t be able to go without speaking, i am extremely social and love to talk. I would gain nothing from not speaking. Speaking is how we socialize and socialization is a large part of what makes humans and sets apart from animals, Is our ability to be so social with others of our kind.

Question)            Angelou says, “There is a world of difference between truth and fact.” What do you think she means by that? Do you think the same?

Answer)               I think she means that the truth is anything anyone makes it out to be. But facts are indisputable. Facts are things that can be proven, whereas the truth can be anything someone believes it be. I would have to strongly agree with what she is saying. Because allot of the stories people tell you have true aspects, but aren’t always totally what they say. Whereas a fact, you can look it up and it’s right there, written in black and white for the world to see. Yet the truth, the truth is open to interpretation.  You and someone can watch the same video, read the same story, or see the same event, and interpret it in hundreds of different ways. Like say a giant purple elephant ran through new York’s time square with a monkey on its back making balloon animals. You ask a hundred different people what they saw, you’ll get a hundred different variations of the same thing. Which are all true but the fact of the matter is that there was a giant purple elephant with a monkey on its back making balloon animals. But the truth could be a million other things.