A Personal Creed [for school] - Writers Forum

September · 04-21-2008, 09:53 AM

For a school assignment (due...tomorrow. so please critique

), we have to write our own personal creed. Now, I am very terrible at writing things like that so I figured I would just blurt something onto the page and see what happens. This is far out of my comfort zone, so I'm posting it here to find out what I can do to make it even make sense to anyone. XP I do like the first five lines but the rest...um. I could use some help with that. Thanks. Also, a side note, we're getting marked on content, organization and language use...if that means anything to you. ^^;

The answer is 42 but I don’t know the Question.

The people who don’t know the Question

tend to like small bits of metal very much

tend to fake themselves to please others

tend to be disappointed when they can’t get a piece of moulded plastic after spending ten hours to get extra bits of metal while acting like someone they aren’t to get those bits

So then to find the Question

I’ll detach myself from bits of metal

I’ll stay who I am to please myself

I won’t expect to gain anything

Gone will be my wants and desires
With them will go all my negative emotions
And maybe then I’ll find the Question
And be able to live a little more peacefully

Ungood · 04-21-2008, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by September

For a school assignment (due...tomorrow. so please critique

), we have to write our own personal creed. Now, I am very terrible at writing things like that so I figured I would just blurt something onto the page and see what happens. This is far out of my comfort zone, so I'm posting it here to find out what I can do to make it even make sense to anyone. XP I do like the first five lines but the rest...um. I could use some help with that. Thanks. Also, a side note, we're getting marked on content, organization and language use...if that means anything to you. ^^;

I know the answer is 42 but I don’t know the Question.

The people who don’t know the Question

tend to like small bits of metal very much

tend to fake themselves to please others

tend to be disappointed when they can’t get a hold ofsome moulded plastic after spending ten hours to get extra bits of metal and acting like someone they aren’t to get those bits

Are talking about coin/money and credit cards?

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So then to find the Question

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I’ll detach myself from bits of metal

I’ll stay who I am to please myself

I won’t be disappointed when I can’t get a hold of something

Gone will be my wants and desires
With them will go all my negative emotions
And maybe then I’ll find the Question
And be able to live a little more peacefully

Not bad... sounds very zen if a bit odd.

Ungood.

September · 04-21-2008, 03:30 PM

The whole thing is a reference to The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so...odd, yep.

Re: small bits of money = coins, yes, that's what I'm referring to. The actual bit from Hitchiker's is 'the movement of small slips of green paper' or something like that. As for sounding zen, well, my one philosophy on living life is from Buddhism so that's all well, lol.

Thanks for the comments!