I find it really interesting the way that honesty plays a part in writing and how it can put more work on the audience. Honesty in writing is a huge attention grabber, the way that some writers make their pieces feel like an honest conversation between themselves and the audience draws the reader in to the piece. It creates a very intimate feeling, however it also puts more work on the audience. One of the major issues of writing an honest piece is getting over the self-rationalizing and embellishment that all humans are subject to. The audience must work to get to the real truth of a personal essay, being able to look past the embellishment made to keep an audience interested and the lies that the writer may or may not be convincing themselves of. Being aware of these internal and external influences is import to both reading and writing a personal essay.
Sometime your own experiences can influence the way you interoperate a work. Your own bias and personal views of certain topics can lead you to come to the conclusions you want to see instead of the ones that the author intended. For example a person who had a traumatic experience on a roller coaster may not be the one to plan the company party at a fair, or a person with trust issues will not be the type of writer that blatantly tell the audience important facts. When a writer puts more work onto the audience to interoperate the truth, it is not a guarantee that everyone will come to the same conclusion that lines up with the author's intention. Its more of a guarantee it won't.
Everyone is an influencer in their own way. We influence the people around us, we influence demographic statistics, we influence social media and fashion and everything else around us. The world will never stop being influenced by people.
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