In this blog post I will be writing about the section of Jealousy in Lamotts's "Bird by Bird." To me I can really connect to this section because I believe that jealousy is a horrible trait to have. Jealousy can really get a person and affect their lives. The line "The more I wrote about it and the more I thought of the movie, the angrier I got at how often this writer friend mentioned her money to me, because that summer Sam and I had almost none, and she knew it." Another line that I could really connect to was, "You are going to feel awful beyond words. You are going to have a number of days in a row where you hate everyone and don't believe in anything." This is a about as truthful as it can get. You have to keep going though no matter what and get through the jealousy and the days where you feel horrible. It always gets better that's how I like to put it. One line from this chapter that I liked was " Me deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things." This line is very strong in that you want to live your life to the fullest until you die.
Lamott likes to give this reference to broccoli in one section of this book. In this section she explains to students this important concept. A line that really stuck out to me was "Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly." Let your story speak to you and tell you what to write down is the way I take this whole broccoli idea. She speaks of how we need this broccoli or you will be having a mental block day or just a bad day. "You need your broccoli in order to write well" she says. Writing is just a simple process that Lamott likes to break down in a funny way.
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