One thing about danger at all times terrified me. There’s a stage of uncertainty that comes with taking dangers; a stage of uncertainty that’s past consolation, for me anyway. Risk is a recreation of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. It’s darkish and I’m disoriented with no clear understanding of the course of the goal. Risk is that second once […]

All the signs point to the conclusion that I live in the past. Peace signs and Grateful Dead stickers decorate my car’s bumper, the smell of incense permeates everything I own, and Bob Dylan’s protest songs fill my iPod. My friends are always calling me a “hippie” and telling me I was born in the […]

Throughout my life, it has been a constant battle of people telling me that I cannot do something and me proving them wrong. To get where I need to be, I need to work harder at things than normal people. My dad always said to my teachers, “You do not see all the work she […]

There was not a single, shining moment of clarity in which I suddenly understood the importance or working hard for my education. I did not lose a loved one. I did not have a near death experience. I did not visit a museum or a national landmark. I did not read an inspiring book or […]

I find solace with the television on, and the cable box turned off. With fragments of black and white vibrating across the screen, and stagnant white noise infiltrating my soul and invigorating my bones, I have the opportunity to feel nothing. I am liberated by the stillness; the static sets me free. Living with an […]

How will your presence enrich our group? The House I wanted the stench would go away. I wanted the diseased, savage canines would go away me alone. In reality, I wanted I hadn’t come in any respect. A pair weeks earlier than sophomore yr, I traveled to Virginia and helped rebuild and transform houses of […]

My father always said, “You can’t stop the rain from falling, but you can choose to use an umbrella.” I figured he got it from a book…maybe an e-mail or a fortune cookie. But I never got the meaning of it until I went to high school. From pre-school to eighth grade, I attended a […]

The country I chose to research for my geography paper was Sri Lanka, primarily because my family has strong ethnic connections to the country. My parents were born and raised in Sri Lanka, and later immigrated to Canada as refugees due to ethnic tensions escalating in the nation. They were survivors of the infamous 1983 […]

The highlight of my nonexistent acting career occurred at age four. That was the summer my parents enrolled me, a puffball-haired pixie with a vivid imagination, in a week-long acting class at the local children’s theater. Our production was “The Fool,” an Indian fable about a man who is bamboozled by (and ultimately outsmarts) a […]

My lips began trembling, my eyes began stinging, and I knew, I simply knew, I used to be going to cry. I stared morosely on the alleged “peanut-butter and jelly” sandwich in entrance of me and noticed a tear fall on the weird creation. My six-year-old thoughts merely couldn’t perceive why the bread was too […]