Lucia per.3

The Infinite Suggestiveness of Common Things. To me this essay was super hard to understand, to grasp the idea and information. I read it three times trying to understand what Madden was implying, and because I wasn't interested in reading it, I would read it over and over understanding nothing, it was after I read what my classmates posted about it when I stared to understand what he was saying. I like how Madden was not afraid to make a point, after his teacher said "“What will you do when you run out of experiences to write about?” He wanted me to admit that I’d have to turn to fiction or suffer the ignominy of rewriting the same handful of exciting experiences I’d had in my life." How he basically implied that there will always be a new experience to write about. We just have to pay attention and be willing to experience new things, to see things in a different way and not just how everyone else sees it. If we all saw things the same way there would be nothing to tell, nothing new and everything would be boring. "We sleepwalk through most of our lives . . . and every
once in a while something happens . . . outside ourselves that forces us to pay attention in a new way, or something happens inside us that enables us to pay attention in a new way. And we suddenly realize that the world is so much richer, and more magnificent, and more wonderful than
we had felt for a long time. Not to sentimentalize . . . , but I think children live much more continuously in a state of awareness of the miraculousness of existence." that quote awoke something inside me, it made me think long and hard about how I see things and made me wonder how others look at things and what the think about or what memories pop up in their minds. I liked the fact that reading this was different than all the other things I've ever read and how by reading it makes me think of writing and how I write and express my thoughts. I ended up learning something from a ten page essay I didn't even want to read, but I'm glad I read it