Self- Reflection
You can read many different things, and none of them strike a chord with you. Then there are those pieces that you read, that strike that chord. By striking a chord, I mean something that tugs at your heart-strings, brings up a particular memory, or just seems to have some sort of resonance with you. When I read “Visitors of the Black Belt,” I immediately realized that a chord had been struck. The poem by Langston Hughes seemed to just resonate with me. The poem sent me down a path of self-reflection.
Reading the poem entirely, and then breaking it down stanza by stanza; no matter how I read it, I always seemed to feel a little bit emotional. For a little while, I never understood why this was, but after I sat staring at the …show more content…
They also seem to be there to make you question the other person that you may have been judging. You should ask them their thoughts of where they came from. When you’re an outside, all you will do is look on and compare how different everything is from where you are from. You will unknowingly and accidentally point out all the negatives. I say this because I know that it is true. When I moved to Statesboro, I was an outsider. I was constantly comparing everything to my hometown and seeing the negatives in everything, it was unintentional, but I couldn’t help but compare everything that was different to what I was used to. After reading the poem, I see now that maybe I should have tried to give Statesboro a shot. I should have tried understand why things were done the ways that they were, but I still believe that I made the best decision that I could by moving back home. No matter how hard, I could have tried, I never would have been able to be a part of Statesboro community as much as I am of Thomaston’s. You have to be happy where you are. As an outsider, you never want to think about the people that live there. You think of them as different because of everything else around you is different, but in reality they could have been just like you. With that being said, instead of seeing people as different, stop and talk to them. Learn about them. Question them. You may be missing a very big portion of their community. This is something that I never did, and I somewhat regret it because if I had, I may not have felt like such an
You can read many different things, and none of them strike a chord with you. Then there are those pieces that you read, that strike that chord. By striking a chord, I mean something that tugs at your heart-strings, brings up a particular memory, or just seems to have some sort of resonance with you. When I read “Visitors of the Black Belt,” I immediately realized that a chord had been struck. The poem by Langston Hughes seemed to just resonate with me. The poem sent me down a path of self-reflection.
Reading the poem entirely, and then breaking it down stanza by stanza; no matter how I read it, I always seemed to feel a little bit emotional. For a little while, I never understood why this was, but after I sat staring at the …show more content…
They also seem to be there to make you question the other person that you may have been judging. You should ask them their thoughts of where they came from. When you’re an outside, all you will do is look on and compare how different everything is from where you are from. You will unknowingly and accidentally point out all the negatives. I say this because I know that it is true. When I moved to Statesboro, I was an outsider. I was constantly comparing everything to my hometown and seeing the negatives in everything, it was unintentional, but I couldn’t help but compare everything that was different to what I was used to. After reading the poem, I see now that maybe I should have tried to give Statesboro a shot. I should have tried understand why things were done the ways that they were, but I still believe that I made the best decision that I could by moving back home. No matter how hard, I could have tried, I never would have been able to be a part of Statesboro community as much as I am of Thomaston’s. You have to be happy where you are. As an outsider, you never want to think about the people that live there. You think of them as different because of everything else around you is different, but in reality they could have been just like you. With that being said, instead of seeing people as different, stop and talk to them. Learn about them. Question them. You may be missing a very big portion of their community. This is something that I never did, and I somewhat regret it because if I had, I may not have felt like such an