Narrative Essay On Self Swindle

The self-swindling swindle “Hmm… I have absolutely no Idea what to write about.” I twirled my pencil in my hand as I wracked my brain for something that I could base my essay on. Although I had been thinking for close to half an hour by now, the only thing that I could think of was writing about how I was in denial about being overweight, while I was in middle school, accepting the fact, and trying to do something about it later. However, I felt that writing about something like that would be far too embarrassing and probably wouldn 't be very interesting at all. My pencil shot out of my hand, soaring across the room as if I had shot from a catapult. I got out another and wrote down “fatty fatty boom boom” on the piece of paper in front of me. I thought back as far as I could go without losing important details, trying to think of anything that I could embellish to the point of being an interesting self swindle essay. I have always been a rather literal person so coming up with something was difficult for me. I decided to switch tactics. Maybe thinking about everything that had ever gone wrong or ended poorly in my life would bring me what I was looking for. Two of some of my hardest times sprung forth. Moving to Michigan and my entire sixth …show more content…
I chose to expand on the latter, writing down details that could be easily forgotten as well as things that I considered important. As I moved through it, I slowly realized that the idea was not only terrible but it also highly depressing. When I finished the assignment I looked around the room and was surprised that nobody else could smell the failure in the air. Unsurprisingly, I decided to scrap that idea. This left me with the instrument and moving