Dangers of being a Goody-Two-Shoes

In schools, we are taught to live scheduled lives. Rules have been pounded into our head for years telling us exactly what will benefit our own lives in the future.  Over the years teachers have said that practice makes perfect, a common saying that most students will hear thousands of times throughout their academic career. This attitude can be applied to many things, such as math and sports however writing is different. To become a better writer it is important to not only do the task but to put effort into the task as well. This topic is explored in the excerpt "The Goody-Two-Shoes Nature". The author of the piece overall explains how detrimental it can be for a writer just to write for writing sake.  To write just because it is scheduled is not useful, and considered a waste of time.

The part of this excerpt that I find most interesting is the blatant contradiction to everything we are taught as students. To take a break or a significant amount of time off from writing would be frowned upon within most education systems. The author likens this to the attendance policy and the pride some have in having perfect attendance. A rigid schedule of attendance that does not allow for life's unpredictable moments leads to a robotic student, doing work but never learning.

The danger of following all these rules and adopting the "goody-two-shoes" persona is that you allow yourself to fall into a routine, leading to a life lived on autopilot. Great writing is born from life's unexpected moments, we have to allow ourselves to decompress and move away from this schedule that has been hammered into our heads. You cannot schedule a time to be creative, often times, and this is true for myself, there comes a period of time where you feel you have something to Say. When you feel that need to tell the world, or to get your thoughts onto paper, or to paint, that is the time when you should do so. Creative studies require more than just practice, they require effort and a great deal of thought.Things are not as black and white as we are lead to believe, life is the shades of grey in between.