One thing that I have always known about myself is that I am an honest person and when talking to others I have never had a hard time telling them about my life experiences, feelings or emotions. However, I feel that the honesty that I try so hard to remain genuine to in my real life hardly ever shows though in my writing. In trying to be honest right now, I would definitely say that I have never been comfortable writing creative non-fiction/narrative/personal story pieces like these.
I guess it is because I have always found comfort in the presumed authority of theory and “objective” analysis to write papers in my English classes. Which is why I spent a long time on this piece, found it much harder to get my thoughts together, and was worried that I was writing something too emotional, too sentimental, too “hallmark.”
I decided to write about my hair because going natural was a moment in my life that was both symbolic and fundamentally changed how I viewed the world around me. Ultimately writing about this was a moment of catharsis for me, which I think is the reason why people look to writing as an outlet for creative expression.
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