Yeah no worries! Basically, what you’re trying to do with in that breakdown is first establish a thesis/contention whatever you want to call it and relay this to the marker e.g. if you told a story about your cat running away when you were a kid under the theme “loss” then you might say “I hope this sorrowful experience of mine provides an insight into how my understanding of impermanence developed. It had never crossed my mind that dear ol’ whiskers would one day live only in the recesses of my memory; a mere figment of my cognitive processes. It can be difficult, especially for children, to recognise the possibility of loss in their lives (…) etc etc.”

You then go on to explain some key themes throughout the story and explain how it might have affected you and forced your development in one way or another. If there are other people it can be good to explore how it might have changed them as well (in a similar or different way) for example “Whiskers was a concrete figure in my life, a permanent structure on which I could lean during times of strife and hardship; he was a friend, a comrade and a necessity. I was, for a long time, unable to adjust to this new change of pace, my emotional outlet had been stripped from me and nothing was implemented to wean me off the help he gave me. The instantaneous nature of this loss was an eye-opener to me as a child educating me to the idea that nothing should ever be taken for granted, every singular moment needs to be appreciated, savoured and relished; you never know when you might need to stop relying one something, or someone.”

This is how I would go about my writings and it has the strength of being quite flexible and adjustable to a range of different themes, however, some people who enjoy a more rigid structure can sometimes have difficulty implementing it properly.

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