Do Young Kim/Art of Persuasion(Week 2)/Thursday 1-3pm

       Writing to me was an art of persuasion. Writing helped me persuade many over the course of my life and I remember that my mother was the first one I persuaded with my writing. And this art of persuasion all started when I was just a little kid.

       When I was a little kid, I wanted many toys. Collecting toys made me feel rich and powerful compared to all the other children in my class and I wanted to just be the most toy rich kid in the school. But as a little kid, I could only get the toys that my mother bought me. This left me no choice but to beg my mom to get the toys I wanted because she was the only means to get what I wanted. But persuading my mother was a much greater challenge than I thought.  

       I tried to be cute, I begged on my knees, I gave her a massage, and I did all sorts of other things any child could humanly do to get just one toy that I wanted. However, my mother was stubborn and she would not budge unless she felt that I deserved what I was getting. Simply put, she was just not the type to spoil her children with toys and gifts. So one day, when I was just tired of begging and sorts, I just left her a letter on her bed for her to listing the reasons why I had to get the toy I wanted so badly. Strangely, the letter worked like magic and she surprised me the next day with the toy I wanted for so long.

       Later on, I asked her why she gave me that toy after just a single letter. She told me that she was proud that I wrote the letter neatly without any spelling errors and she felt happy that I was a much better writer than she thought I would be. To me, this memory defines what writing is to me, an art of persuasion. The pen is mightier than the sword indeed.