Japanese teacher's advice for opinion essay writing stays with one student to this day

There are all kinds of reasons for people to get performance anxiety before writing, and Twitter user @utanokobako reminisced on her own tribulations when writing personal opinion essays for school, a very common assignment.
“I’ve never been especially good at writing personal opinion essays.
Sometimes I didn’t manage to express myself eloquently, but I was doomed to fail if I wasn’t writing from my honest opinions.
Still, thanks to that incident with the teacher, I learned how to write short essays and then progressed to writing full-length reports at university.
That being said, make sure that you exercise your tactfulness muscles at the same time… you never know who your honest essay might hurt.