Writer's Block

I have never been a creative writer but I was able to always complete the task that I was presented with, answering a specific question or critiquing a piece of literature or even filling this blog with my ramblings. Lately, however, I have been trying to get myself to write about myself i.e.a personal statement. Yet another task, but for some reason I am all out of ideas or inspiration. In an attempt to rekindle some kind of spark, I started to re-read past correspondence from mentors or even past essays that I written a few years ago. As I was re-reading, I was amazed at how naive and inspired I used to be or rather portrayed myself in writing. I talked about goals and plans and thought I had everything figured out. Now after almost 5years of college, I am fresh out of ideas and completely jaded about the world. I, no longer, feel like embellishing my work experience or writing about how unique I am because honestly, as I get older there are more and more people that have done the exact same things as I did.

I never realized that writing my personal statement would be as hard as it is and remains to be the only thing that is missing from my application checklist.