Feedback!

I really, really dislike the act of going and asking someone to give me feedback on my work.  I think it has to do with the fact that I hate giving feedback and I know it can be a hassle so I don’t torment others with the task of reading a crappy piece of writing for some benefit.  Most of the time when I do get feedback it’s only from though assignments that I get feedback from anyways, or when I know that something is so important that I don’t trust myself not to get feedback. 

Now I do realize that this is a really terrible view of feedback and I should be more open to getting more, blah, blah, blah.  But for some reason I just haven’t found that person that Anne Lamott was telling me about.  That one person I trust to give me feedback and give it truthfully and respectfully.  I really like getting feedback and sometimes even the craziest and weirdest suggestions help me to understand how to focus on a subject or to convey an emotion.  I think I can be really helpful in a group setting like our discussions in class because then you have people playing off of each others suggestions to come up with really amazing and interesting ideas for you to think about and implement. 

I think that my goal, though I’ve been working on this goal since I was a freshman in high school, is to find someone that I trust to give me feedback and I can bring them anything and they won’t care or mind.  I need to work on asking people for help rather than doing everything myself.  They really seem simple but I’ve had 6 years to try to fix them so they really aren’t as simple as they seem.