Rough draft of speech
We
all need an outlet or something that takes us away from the everyday stresses
or struggles that comes with life. Some of you are probably thinking about that
coffee break, the Taj mahal, going on a walk or maybe you are happy to be here
and you are anxiously waiting for what I have to say.
This speech is going to discuss writing or art as means
to describe our demons. Hemmingway said, “Writer’s are alone.” Silvia Platt
said, “I am a tortured soul.” Jack Kerouac was kick out of the U.S. marines and
he even dropped out of college. They’re people or individuals out there that
don’t seem to belong with their surrounding or the mainstream. Yet when they
face an empty page or empty canvas it envelope their senses like a rose garden.
It is their outlet it what makes them feel normal.
It isn’t until something catastrophic happens to these
artists that we hear depression, schizophrenia or anxieties. Except for Jack
Kerouac suicide seemed like the only option. Their words are now their epitaph.
Do you think that if these writers received help or the breakthroughs
that are happening today were in these writers’s prime would they have written
their greatest works? If Silvia Platt
was put on anti-depressants would she have written the bell jar? If Hemmingway
had emitted himself earlier to the hospital with the breakthrough we have
today, would he have won the Nobel Prize?
I
will never be as recognized as these great writers. I get an injection every
four weeks and I take my medication orally so yes my schizophrenia is treated
for the most part. I still have to ignore excess, off the wall thinking or
delusions. Can help but wonder or should I question my poetry or other forms of
writing. I will not have that masterpiece. You want to know what; I am satisfied
with my life. I have no awards no following, and I will always write my poetry
and other writing. Once you realize you are never going to be famous it takes
the pressure off. 
2 comments:
Jason, I really like where you are going with this, and I think it will be wonderful for the professionals to hear you. I especially like the image of the blank canvas enveloping the senses like a rose garden. Really vidid.
Make that "really vivid"
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