Personal essay

I know it needs to be two to three pages long. It doesn’t specify how many words. It just states a personal reflection report on the article.

Just need to know if this can be done looked it up and it just seems like it’s a personal essay not interested in giving personal information just examples it won’t be long enough to do in two pages minimal.

Article is on telling secrets and don’t relate to the topic.

It literally is an article called telling secrets.Telling Secrets

“In an age when totalitarianism has striven, in every way, to devaluate and degrade the human person, we hope it is right to demand a hearing for any and every sane reaction in the favor of man’s inalienable solitude and his interior freedom”

“Thomas Merton, SJ. Preface of “Thoughts in Solitude””

I have called this book “Telling Secrets” because I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition–that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are–even if we tell it only to ourselves–because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier that way to see where we have been in our lives and where we are going. It also makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about. Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell. Buechner, Frederick Telling Secrets (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991) p.2-3.

I remove my masks today

I remove my masks today and I reveal my genuine self I have appeared safely incognito before others–in many safe disguises. And I now see the danger in this, the risk that I will become disguised to myself, that I will camouflage myself with thin, pleasant smiles and superficial chatter. In doing this, I counterfeit my life, disguised both to others and to myself. I remove my masks today, for the masquerade saps me, consumes my energy, keeps me tense, guarded and apprehensive. I take a deep breath and take the plunge. I can be me, the real me, spontaneous without disguise, intimate without masks. I accept who I am: not a fixed, rigid, cardboard entity, but a person of many moods and emotions, a person of will and talent and energy, a person of integrity and flexibility. I can be myself today, freely, authentically and without pretense. Lerner, Rokelle Daily Affirmations, (Health Communications, Inc 1985) July 30 entry