Angelou Writers Response

Maya Angelo is a extremely successful writer who wrote about her life and hard times. Maya celebrates "the universal human power to triumph over adversity." I know it can become hard in your life to over come things but same as Maya I have moved through to find that you as yourself have the ability to overcome a huge tragedy or hard life because you are strong! I have had many friends who have struggled with hard times whether it be when they were little growing up in a bad home and put in foster care, or being abused and having to move in with another family member. Things like this happen everyday, and you have the power to overcome it and move forward with your life not letting anything tear you down and showing those who hurt you that they have no control over your life. One of my friends was adopted from Russia when she was 7 she was put in a orphanage when she was younger because her parents were not stable to take care of her and left her with her siblings in a park. Yes she does have some problems with anger, and we don't always get along, but she is a strong person who has moved on past that point in her life and not let it hold her back.
Maya Angelo went through a major trauma when she was 7 years old and didn't talk for 5 years. I couldn't even image how hard it would be to go that long without talking. It takes serious emotional damage to cause a person not to talk for so long. I talk to much myself and to image going so long without talking to anyone, not even my parent that would be so hard to deal with! I do feel if I didn't speak so often though and listened I would learn a lot from the world and realize how important it is to listen and not to speak. I also feel though by talking and interacting with people you learn a lot too. I am amazed at how amazing Maya is of a writer when she went so long without interacting, but yet I think how much time she had to listen and learn about the world. I feel this has helped shape her as a writer.
In Maya Angelo's passage she talks about total recall. When she talks about this I can relate. If you have ever been through something traumatic it doesn't matter how hard you may try to block it out it has a way of coming back. Not just coming back though, but it is almost like you are reliving that moment again. You remember ever single last detail down to what the people where wearing. It never matters ether if you try to focus on the good the bad has a way of coming back and biting you in the butt. You also though remember really good times in your life, like when you went on a vacation, or when you spent a day with your family. They also are the same where you remember everything about it down to the smell. It helps our imagination grow when we remember these things because we cant help but imagine them again. The memories maybe good or bad but this helps us grow as a person and especially as writers.
To occupy your small mind you do things that are small and easy to help you get moving in the direction where you can do everything you want to do. When I need to occupy my small mind I swim or listen to music. It relaxes me and takes the stress away from all other things, so my mind can be open to all new things. Maya uses playing cards. You also though can have small distractions that keep you from getting done what you need to, my biggest thing is my phone and talking to people. It takes me away from the things I need to accomplish and I have to overcome the temptation and put the phone aside so I can do what is needed to be done.
I agree that writing can become hard especially when thinking about the reader and what they would enjoy. I find writing easy when I am doing it for myself, because I know that no one is judging it. When I write papers though for grades it suddenly becomes a lot more difficult. The fear of the reader not injoying the paper or feeling the paper isn't right. Your thoughts and feelings may not be the same as the reader, but you always are going to have some people displeased no matter how hard you try. I find it hard to think that I cannot always please my writers, so that is the hardest writing for me.