“Not right now.” How many times have I heard that, and how many times have my little anecdotes been pushed back and eventually suppressed? “Does this story have a point?” That question has been posed to me many times in my life when I tell my mom or a friend a story that happened in my life and they do not see how my story affects them so they fail to see the purpose of the story. Sometimes though, my tales are only told in order to help myself, to allow myself to work out things in my head or to see where things went wrong which is how I am able to know exactly how Norman feels when he is driving around and around the lake just thinking of the story he might tell his friends and family.
When Norman’s friends and family were not there he was unable to work things out correctly. Sometimes the people I need to talk to are just unreachable and the best thing I know to do is to try talking to myself but pretending that they are there by tr
Listening to your friends and family is something that is easy to do, well sometimes, when you have the time or when it fits into your schedule but what I have learned is that you have to make time for listening to your friends and family because if it is important and they need to talk, you could be the only person that will. I know that when I finally was able to talk to people about my parents divorce I was able to see that it was not my fault and now I am even closer with my friend who allowed me to tell them all about me problems. So, now I know that if I have something on my mind it is easiest and best to talk about it and figure out a solution or at least the problem.
When my parents were getting a divorce I did not want to talk about it at first, I mean why would I? Why would I want to talk about the hurt and pain that it not only caused me, but caused my brother and parents as well? It was painful to me as a child because it made me wond