A Reflection Of A Personal Writing System

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For my essay I chose to interview my neighbor Kyle to learn more about his personal writing system he has been creating. I learned a lot more than I had been anticipating and could say that I received an eye opening from the way he discussed his passion. He opened my eyes in two ways. One, to how I viewed his passion and two, how I view my own passions. Now let me get a little more in depth on the real effects of these two things. Originally, I figured learning about the writing system would be interesting. However, I would be lying if I said I did not choose it because it seemed easy and straight forward as a topic for the assignment. Luckily Kyle left me pleasantly surprised with how captivating the conversation and demonstration was. After

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