the words i wish i said: by caitlin kelly

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In her compelling and heartbreaking book The Words I Wish I Said, the author recounts her experiences as a young woman growing up in the South during the Civil Rights movement. She discusses how she overcame racism, sexism, and poverty to become the successful author and activist she is today. I wish I had said this to you sooner. I’ll say it now: I’m sorry I missed the opportunity to express how much you mean to me. The Strength In Our Scars” is Bianca Sparacino’s reminder to you: No matter what you’re going through, no matter where you are on your healing journey—you are strong. I wish I said, good job! When someone did something well, instead of just saying nothing at all or asking them why it took them so long to do it or whether they got it right or not (which makes them feel bad about themselves).

I wish I said, I love your smile. I wish I told you to smile more often because you still reach for my hand and squeeze it tight even when you don’t. I wish I had shown you that confidence in who you are and how hard you try. they keep saying it will get better but when? being alone and feeling lonely are two different things” that, i think, is beautiful. heartwarming. what this collection was intending to be. but it just got repetitive. i mainly pushed through and finished it so i know moving forward that this kind of poetry just isn’t for me. I've tried to explain to him how oppressive it is, but he doesn't seem to get it. Maybe things might have turned out differently if I had been more pushy from the start. But it appears that it is already too late.The words I wish I had said. The things I wish I’d said. The way I wish I’d told you how much this meant to me. This book isn’t for us to criticize the author’s experience, instead it’s a glimpse at their life, their feelings, their self. i don’t want this rating or review to come off harsher than i intend it to be. and i don’t think of myself as an overly critical or pretentious reader. but truly.. this wasn’t poetry. or at least, it wasn’t the poetry i enjoy. this was just words randomly separated and spaced out into different lines. some of them were nice or relatable… but most of them just weren’t anything new or special to me personally.

There could be several situations where we wish we would have said something to someone at the moment but didn’t. These moments were sometimes lost forever when they escaped amidst our silence. Moments where saying something small could have changed somebody’s life, or at least their day. I wish I had said this before, “I’m not doing this alone.” Many are working together with me to help me accomplish the mission that I have embarked on. I've always had a little bit of shyness. I'm not one for small talk with strangers or speaking up in front of huge gatherings of people. There are things I want to express so often, but the words just won't come. I found this book to be very interesting in so many ways. One of them was because the age that the author wrote this book was sixteen. So who better write and focus on the thoughts of a teenager, rather than one themselves. Another was the way and the placement of the chapters, I feel that they all went hand in hand and made sense in the way they were placed. I wish I had said these things to my friends, family and whoever else might have needed a little extra encouragement. No mountain is too hard to climb, and you only need to look inside of you to find the strength to climb.

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The autobiography of Caitlin Kelly, titled The Words I Wish I Said, is an ambitious and inspiring work that every woman who has ever wished to pursue her aspirations despite scepticism and opposition should read. The book was written by Caitlin Kelly herself. Kelly, who had spent the majority of her adult life working as a freelance writer and editor, suddenly found herself 45 years old with four children and no funds or prospects after she was laid off from her job. She did not allow this to stop her, and instead she abandoned her old methods in favour of discovering new activities, and gradually she became accustomed to the idea that things may change for the better. The words I wish I said, I wish I could say that I’ve never been hurt by someone I thought was on my side, but that would be a lie. The truth is, I have been hurt by people I loved and trusted. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. I wish I had said: I can’t wait to see you again; peradventure I would have seen you one more time before you finally departed from this world.

I wish I could tell you how much I love spending time with you, but I don’t want to scare you away with my intensity and passion. The way you made me feel when I was down, the dreams you’ve ignited, and all the memories we made. I wish I said; Thank You. We only have so many opportunities to interact with people, and we never know when those chances will go. I will thus make an effort going forward to overcome my shyness and express my thoughts, even if they aren't flawless. Because there are moments when the words we wish we had said are the most crucial of all. I was beyond impressed with this book, I did not set my expectation too high. It still managed to exceed them. I was not expecting it to turn out the way it did, nor was it in any relation to the types of poetry books I like to read. I think that this book did give a certain type of peace and gratitude for how the world is looked at through teenage thoughts and hearts. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs some sort of clarification with their thoughts and wants to know that it is not just them that feels a certain way. Other people, such as myself and Caitlin Kelly feel it too.