"THINK ABOUT YOUR WRITING as part of a larger, ongoing conversation" Pg. 70 Prompt

I have not recently written anything in which I addressed or wrote about a topic that matters to me and expressed a position. However, recently I came across some writing I did for a Xanga blog post in 2007 in which I expressed a position regarding love and authenticity of ones self. In the writing I chose a mix of attempted poetry and philosophical thought to communicate the ideas of being yourself. The motivation behind this writing was in response to my observation of friends not feeling able to  express themselves. This was an observation that was made as a general whole and I wrote it as a response to the observation of a feeling of limitation and slight unhappiness at their decision of restricting themselves in their expressions of themselves. The position I took was to be themselves and I even recalled and addressed the thought of rejection. I used the art of rhyme to make the point come across in a sort of rhythm and quoted Emerson and Shakespeare as a resource to communicate my argument. I chose to use this writing example as a response to the page 70 prompt because it was something I wrote that matter(s/ed) to me and I felt more connected to that writing than anything I may have written recently. It was also an example of me taking a clear position to make an argument.