unit 1 paper topic

I think the hardest part of my Unit 1 paper will be coming up with an idea that works. The writing exercise we did in class had some interesting results. Some of the people and things that popped into my head were obvious but some of them were either really random or things or people that i haven't even thought about in a while or i guess just never even realized that they were significant to me until having to write down this list. It's hard to look at your life and everything that has ever happened to you and pick out some important moment. I don't even remember a lot of the moments that made me who i am today. I can list the changes that i have gone through but it is very difficult to pick out the events or moments that caused them. The moment that i ended up writing about in the activity was when i met my dad's dad a few years ago. I guess technically he is my grandfather but i feel strange even saying that word because he was a stranger that had no part in my life until my junior year of high school. The moment was an odd and significant moment in my life because it made me think of myself, my family, my past, and my whole life a little bit differently. There are many ways i could make my paper publicly relevant. I didn't do this on purpose, but like "The Dew Breaker" this moment greatly affected the way that i saw my own father and obviously my grandfather, along with other member's of my family. It made me rethink what family really means and how being blood related to someone connects you to them or how you can define who a relative is. It made me feel the importance of knowing about your past and where and who you come from and how it can affect you or even not affect you. Also how is it possible that an encounter with a stranger can affect you as much as this did me. The problem i am having with this topic is that it is an event that was unexpectedly very emotional for me. I have yet to even fully grasp the situation and i have found myself trying to force my brain to stop even thinking about it because of the different emotions that it surfaces. It is something that is not settled in my mind and i just don't know if i should pick a topic that would be easier or just simpler. I would pick something else but a rough draft is due tomorrow and i haven't thought of anything else good yet so i guess i am going to just give it a try and then if my rough draft is even shittier that it's supposed to be i will just have to try something else.