Culture Jam Essay Reflection

Writing this essay was really hard for me because Culture Jam touched a lot of nerves for me. It made me angry because I am complacent and it made me annoyed that I don't fight back against injustices. It's just so much easier to roll over and let others get their way. I think there's a lot to be said for going with the flow because if you always try to make things go exactly as you want you'll never be happy. It's important to recognize the difference between letting things happen that will make you happy and just bending to other people's will because it's easier.
One is like you're floating in a river and there's a fork in the river which both look appealing and the wind gives you a little push to the left fork. The other is like someone shoving something gross into your mouth, which by instinct you swallow. Every day someone shoves something disgusting into your mouth until you feel so full of crap that you want to burst and yet you're so weighed down you can barely move.

From writing this essay I learned that sometimes you feel like you have a writers block so you're too scared to write, but sometime once you start reading over what you already have and start with small changes that something will start to flow. So again it's good to start early so that you have time to let yourself flow. Also sometimes I'm afraid to edit because I know I'll hae to make major changes and some times delete most of what I have, so instead of deleting first (because that's scary to see a blank page again) add what you think you need and then when you have way too much writing you can delete what you don't need. It's pretty much the same thing but much less scary.