Two Slashes

Imagine that.  The month is almost up.  Stay tuned for the wrap-up of the previous month in pseudo-randomness, which will be arriving at some point in the near future.

Many people see their twenties as a turning point for their lives.  They’re just starting to figure out adulthood, but sometimes they’re not quite ready, like the single bunch of green bananas you always end up with at the supermarket.  Others are so ready that they end up looking like this orange by the time they leave their teens.  Either way, there’s plenty to blame for why that piece of fruit looks the way it does, and everyone comes out the tail end the better for themselves.

Posted to 20SB earlier today was a request for topic suggestions for a graduate-level writing assignment, the goal of which is to write twenty pages on life experiences.  I like the prompt, having had a similar (though much shorter requirement) for a rhetoric class I took last year:

If you had to write 20 nonfiction pages as a 20-something, what would you write about? College? Debt? Growing up?  (slightly modified for readability )

To be honest, I don’t know if I have a real answer to that question.  You’ll notice how infrequently the “Personal” category has been used since I first opened it up in December to rant about my issues with the previous holiday season.

It’s not for lack of trying to come up with anything, though, especially since I started this whole “Comment Block” project.  Granted, there are a few differences between writing a (comparatively long) essay to be read by at most a handful of people (let’s add in the point that usually you know these people in real life) and a digestible yet public blog post (potentially read by hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people you’ve never met, and indexed, categorized, and cached a half-dozen times before you even have a second chance to think about what you’ve published).  There’s a happy medium that needs to be found.  Compared to old writings from a previous blog (of which I have only scraps, sorry), I’m a lot less revealing in what I post (and at the same time a bit more boring, I assume).

I know my personal tangent there is a bit unrelated, but considering the discussion on 20SB is limited to members, I figured I’d bring the question out into a more general audience.  What would you write about if you were given this prompt?