Literacy Narrative

 

Remember your first time sitting at a computer, looking at it and wondering how to even turn it on? Every person has been there to an extent. If you look back 40 to 50 years ago when there weren’t computers and computers weren’t integrated into the schooling system and most businesses and now it’s part of our everyday life.

If you stop and think about how the main way to write a short while ago was mainly by pen and paper and if it was something official a type writer was used. Now days pretty much everything is done electronically on a laptop, cell phone or tablet. In most schooling systems today you submit your papers online instead of printing off a hard copy and handing it in. With this type of technology today I feel like more is expected out of the students when it comes to writing and reading.

Looking back to my middle school years, I remember doing keyboarding exercises, learning how to use Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint in my seventh grade computer class. At first in school when I was learning all this stuff about computers I was a little intimidated by all the technology and the fact that it was something new to learn. Now using a computer is like second nature to me.

 Now looking back to one specific time where I remember a certain writing experience. It would be my junior year of high school. All of the writing assignments we did for this class we turned in online through our school website a lot like the D2L site we use here. That same year

 

of   high school I was assigned a four page informative paper to write on whatever subject I wanted. I chose to do my research paper on The Latin Kings. The Latin Kings were a gang based out of California and they were fearless and lived their lives to full extent.

In doing the research and writing the paper for that particular assignment it changed my life in a way, because now even on the weekdays I still find a way to not just live for the weekends. I know everybody has their bad days and just wants to move onto the next day. Living for just weekends though isn’t good because there is much more to life than the weekends. Life should be about enjoying every moment possible that we have.

 I also learned that we live in a world that never rests. Our lives consist of putting in our 40 hour weeks or more at work and going out and having fun on the weekends and during the week we just cruise right through it without really taking anything in. It’s almost like we are robots in a way and are just doing the same process over and over. We repeat this dull, boring process pretty much till we die. It’s a sad thing to think about but is true fact we should come to realize.

The experience I had I would have to say encouraged me in a way. It made me want to live day by day instead of just for the weekends. Life is too short just to look forward to those 104 weekend days we have in a year, because before you know it we will all be like 80

 

 

something sitting in a nursing home having regrets about not cherishing every moment of or short life we live. We need to realize how short life actually is.

The way I write today I don’t think has changed due to my experience reading and writing on a computer. Although over time like every person, it has improved to several writing assignments I have done in high school. I am sure it will improve much more throughout college. I believe writing and reading is the main cause for success in our world.

As I have stated above, doing the research for my informative paper my junior year has changed my life and I learned a lot about myself and the world around me. Doing the research taught me how to use my resources for my writing. It has vastly improved me as a writer, reader and academic learner. I hope by reading this you may come to realization about how we should live our life’s not for the weekends but for the weekdays as well. Doing this you will be much happier, it will make your days go by faster and it will make you much more enjoyable to work with in the work place or school setting.