Forgiveness Essay Reflection

My essay is about forgiveness.  Not forgiveness out of compassion, but out of a need.  A need to forgive out of a need to keep peace.  Searching for the compassion in your heart and finding what little bit of it there is and embracing it, instead of letting it find you.  It’s about not having the choice to forgive.  The hardest part when writing it was trying to join together my memory and the example from outside of my life.  Creating that connection which was seemingly so random required a little feigned memory to draw them together.  If I were to change anything, I would probably change to format of the paper to keep my original questioning paragraph because it allowed the reader more creativity in their reading and they could ponder their own answers to the questions rather than me concentrating their focus on one topic and telling them my opinion.  It may have led better to self expression, but I enjoyed not guiding the reader and letting them almost read the essay as though they themselves had written it, and allowing them to explore their own opinions instead of mine.  This made me prefer my original copy more precisely because it was less exact and less polished.  Additionally, I had never really thought about the need to forgive in Romeo and Juliet.  The example had originally come to mind when I was previously writing about anger in my rough draft and had been brought to the front of my mind.  Although I abhorred cliché, the new direction was both interesting and the only thing I could think of now that my mind was filled with Romeo and Juliet.  It surprised me when I came up with it, not just because it had never occurred to me, but I really liked the new side of forgiveness that I had never considered before, but both before me and in my own experience were a multitude of examples.  This discovery was the most unexpected portion of the writing of my essay.