My Personal Watcher

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Neiman Mac Dula ENGWR 300 The Watcher Ideas make the world go round. Great ideas are the foundation for everything we have, depend on, and will create in the future. They represent progress, advancement, and ultimately, the best ways for us to survive. Ideas allow us to grow and thrive as a civilization. They are an integral and important part of life, being a medium for our creative energy to channel into. Seeing that ideas are so important, people usually think long and hard about the ideas that they choose to put forth. A person concentrating solely on coming up with different ideas or brainstorming probably comes up with multiple ideas at any given moment. However, we rarely use or even consider ideas that we consider to be “not good enough” or “imperfect”. The mind has a sort of filter, or conscience that tells us what is or is not a good idea. The filter can be compared to a “Watcher At The Gates”. A persona within the mind that critics the different ideas and or concepts that we come up with and decides whether or not they are good enough to consider or continue to pursue or utilize. Everybody has their own unique watcher, and he/she is personified in many different ways. I for one, constantly find myself hindered by my watcher, who is somewhat of an enigma to even myself. My watcher is simply a mirror image of myself. He represents the perfectionist/ obsessive compulsive part of me or the “overly competitive” side of me. He is the part of me that makes me feel like I am constantly competing with myself to become the best- a contest that is never-ending. My watcher is strange in the respect that unlike the watcher that Gail Godwin describes for herself in her essay “The Watcher At the Gates”, my watcher tends to be a little bit more lax when it comes to letting ideas past. However, herein lies the problem. Unlike Godwin’s watcher who is strict and
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