Oct 4th Blog - Miguel

 This weeks readings contained a lot of feelings of love within their stories. I also did nor expect some of the endings for a few of the readings. Diving into the first reading (Realizing Fun Things Through Water) it felt to me as if this reading was a bit of a blur honestly. The narrator was very much someone who not complains a lot but holds their feelings within and thus has a lot to say (whether it be bad or good), I mean she was talking about how she could only say certain stuff to the water and how she couldn’t talk to other people about that stuff so it felt good to let it out. I think that’s very not toxic but it’s a bad thing to bottle up thoughts to the point where water is your only outlet. I also find the way the narrator thinks about her relationship with her husband to be questionable. Her stance on romance is also confusing like I assumed she just didn’t like labels at first, but then she goes on to say its more on how that romance could hurt people, not directly either but somewhere out there someone would get hurt?? I don’t it was very weird and then she only likes people who find interest in her first, but then its not like she likes them back its just that she feels the need to give back because of their “kindness”.  Moving on the seahorse reading also had me in a loop, it was a lot of jumping back an forth. It had me a little lost hearing about the several husbands she has had and then her children, the first one dying early and then the last one being the only girl and resembling her. And then did the 4th child die then when she went into the water, I assumed she did, but I could be wrong. I also did not like hearing about the abuse she went through with the husbands treating her body like that. The misogyny reading also confused me with what exactly was being cut, like I know it was misogyny being cut but like what was the actual thing representing that. The other readings were okay in my opinion it was more these readings mentioned before that struck me out, the picnic one I just felt was weird. Tomochans happiness also was not confusing, but it just didnt resonate anything with me. Oh and there was a lot of like neck and whiteness kind of physical traits being mentioned through out all the readings. Do I know why that is, not really, but I noticed it and thought I would share.