My writing goals for this blog are to write an informative piece, not as much narrative, but talking about smelling things that a person that can’t smell would wish to be able to experience. I want to try and show that smell is more important than we think. My audience for this blog would be someone reading an article in a magazine about people that can’t smell. It is a bigger deal then most people think, because we all can, but some just can’t.
Smelling things, it is not as easy as we think, because it is very hard to control. When we don’t want to smell something we try to plug our noses, but that normally doesnt work the way that we want it to. But when we want to smell something with breathe it in really deep. Not everyone can smell and smell has an impact on many things that we do. The key thing is do we really even realize it?
When we eat food, we taste it, feelt the texture and swallow. But if a food smells terrible, we are very hesitant to eat it. Trying biting into something that smells like a landfill built on top of a sewage treatment center. We would be gagging the entire time, the food would barely digest, before we felt like it was coming back up, the food could taste like a gourmet meal, but because the smell around us and of the food is so vile we completely ignore the taste and are minds start to think this is going to be gross! Whenever you have a cold and your nose is stuffed up food doesn’t taste the same, so yeah tasting is important, but is just because you can’t breathe our your nose means that your mom’s delicious warm apple pie will taste like plain rice with no mlk, butter, or seasoning it will just taste like nothing. Not only does the food have an impact on our food, but in our day to day life it creates things.
We walk to classes everyday on campus, and we can smell one hundred different things before we even, get from the Oak Grove to Zinc for classes. We can smell the fresh air breezing around the trees, then we smell the sawdust being cut for the dorms being built, we start to smell the food from Folger that makes our mouthes drool, and right before we enter Zinc we smell whatever the hell those disgusting berries growing on the trees right outside, that make everyone gag. When we smell something good it can bring a smile to your face without anyone even noticing, but smell something bad and it almost ruines the next couple minutes until the scent is replaced with a better one.
Those that can’t smell would probably want to smell bad things too, as much as we hate to smell those things that make us throw up in our mouthes, they would wish to smell anything. We have to smell the bad to smell the good, because what would we compare things to then. If those damn trees smell so terrible, anything will end up smelling like fresh flowers. We take our scent for granted it makes our food taste better, it makes it easier to eat everything if it smells good, and it helps our daily life go by. It is as equally as important as the other senses.
I think that I did a pretty good job reaching my goals for this blog entry. I think that i may need better transitions, but i don’t really know how to make those switches smoothly. My essay seems informative, but it is a little more narrative than i think that i was originally intending it to be, but overall it seems to make sense.
this essay is great. I’m really glad i can smell. What would you do if you couldn’t smell?
Your essay was very nice, it makes you see how important our sense of smell really is. I don’t know what I would do without it.
Kylie ~ I don’t know what i would do if i couldn’t smell, because food doenst taste right it is just gross everything tastes blah, no matter how much seasoning you put on it.
Shauna ~ Thanks, yeah i do think that my smell of sense is really important to me and i am glad that, that was shown through on my blog.