So I have an essay for my Creative Writing class, and I'm supposed to write a essay on conflict. So i chose to do an internal conflict, simply because i think it'll be easiest to write about, for obvious reasons. I have two possible topics- being stuck/not knowing where i'm going (in life) and regretting moments that passed because of unspoken words. I have intro paragraphs for both.
Topic 1:
Imagine for a second, walking along the sidewalk and then seemingly out of know where, you go to take your next step but you can’t. You look down and your feet are stuck on the pavement. Your panic starts to rise as you just stand there and watch as everything you were just moving with, now moves on without you. This is exactly how I felt, until I realized being stuck was the best solution, for me, because frankly I don’t know where I would go even if I weren’t stuck. For the longest time I looked behind me and found only darkness, then I looked in front of me but everything was blurry. Now I know why, the darkness behind me was my past that I’ve worked very hard to repress, and blurred vision in front of me was the uncertainty of my future. Which leaves me with the present, however I’m unsatisfied with it, I’m stuck in it, sick of it.
Topic 2:
Dorothy Nevill once said “The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” My problem lies in the regret that comes along with letting moments pass and losing chances to say what I mean, feel, or think. As it so happens the words you leave unspoken turn out to be the most important ones, the ones you don’t think but the ones you feel. I don’t want to look back and be able to think what would/could have happened, I want to look back and see what did happen when I spoke up not at the right time and most likely not with the right words but with the right feeling.
I know they kinda suck but i haven't had too much luck and this is all i got, so please leave your opinions and if you have any alternatives please please tell me them.
Topic 1:
Imagine for a second, walking along the sidewalk and then seemingly out of know where, you go to take your next step but you can’t. You look down and your feet are stuck on the pavement. Your panic starts to rise as you just stand there and watch as everything you were just moving with, now moves on without you. This is exactly how I felt, until I realized being stuck was the best solution, for me, because frankly I don’t know where I would go even if I weren’t stuck. For the longest time I looked behind me and found only darkness, then I looked in front of me but everything was blurry. Now I know why, the darkness behind me was my past that I’ve worked very hard to repress, and blurred vision in front of me was the uncertainty of my future. Which leaves me with the present, however I’m unsatisfied with it, I’m stuck in it, sick of it.
Topic 2:
Dorothy Nevill once said “The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” My problem lies in the regret that comes along with letting moments pass and losing chances to say what I mean, feel, or think. As it so happens the words you leave unspoken turn out to be the most important ones, the ones you don’t think but the ones you feel. I don’t want to look back and be able to think what would/could have happened, I want to look back and see what did happen when I spoke up not at the right time and most likely not with the right words but with the right feeling.
I know they kinda suck but i haven't had too much luck and this is all i got, so please leave your opinions and if you have any alternatives please please tell me them.