Week 3 · Lesson 2
The Work
Eight questions. What you write is read by your facilitator and nobody else. Not your officer, not your school, not your family, and not in any report. Two of these you do not write down at all.
Week 3 of 23 · Choices and Peer Pressure
Nobody reads this one. Who would actually notice if you were not around this week, and reach out that same day? Count them.
What does that circle give you that has nothing to do with money? Name all of it, then write where else you could get any of it.
Why is leaving harder than saying no?
- A Because people will come after you.
- B Because you cannot leave something holding you unless something else is holding you first.
- C Because you would lose the money.
- D It is not harder, people just make excuses.
Four kinds of pressure: to prove, of the moment, of being needed, of being nobody. Which one gets you? Write the last time it worked.
Which pressure is described as the quietest and the strongest?
- A Somebody watching to see what you do.
- B Being already in it and moving.
- C Being needed by somebody who counts on you.
- D Being nobody, with nowhere to be and nobody waiting.
Somebody you know already got out. What got said about him? And be honest about the other part, what were you thinking that you did not say out loud?
Peter folded in front of a servant girl, hours after pulling a blade on armed men. What is the lesson?
- A He was a coward the whole time.
- B It is not the big pressure that gets men, it is one uncomfortable minute in a group where nobody knows you.
- C He should have stayed home.
- D The story is exaggerated.
Nobody reads this one. Where is your fire? Name the one place or group where you become somebody different than you are anywhere else.
Nothing you write here goes to your officer, your school or your family.
Defining Narratives · Week 3 Written work