Life through the eyes of a twenty-year-old
Wellness
Physique: 12 DOG
Today, and most days, I am grateful for my hair, skin, eyelashes, fingernails, lungs, and my body in entirety. However, most days are not all days, and there was a time in my life were the bad days outnumbered the good. Let me begin as a child, as all good “this is when it began” […]
MoreHow Are You?
Being that I (still) don’t know many people here in college, it always catches me off guard when someone stops to ask “how are you?” “Good,” I reply quickly, a conditioned response. “How are you?” I never quite listen all the way through to their answer, partly because it’s the same as mine and partly because […]
MoreSummoning Courage
Well. It happened. I turned in my lock, Zoology textbook, and sign out sheet. I drug my feet down the halls three extra times because it didn’t feel right. I said goodbye to people I knew I might never see again. Today was my final day of high school. It may sound clichè, and those […]
MoreAn Open Letter to My Brain
Dear Brain, Guessing you already know who this is. You know most things. Or at least, you like to pretend you do. I have come to the realization that you actually don’t know everything, despite the eighteen years of believing it. The difference between left and right still confuses you, you haven’t quite come to […]
MoreThe Line
Everything comes in different shapes and sizes. Heck, they even make mini, regular, and monster size candy bars. Different size containers for French fries, soda pop, nachos. They make small cars (that go fast), for single rich men or billionaires. They make medium size or regular cars for us drivers who occasionally have passengers or […]
MoreDefinition by Number
Math is my least favorite subject. I have despised it since at least the second grade, when the teacher stopped letting us count with our fingers. Confession time: I still use my fingers to count. Now, as a junior in high school, I am faced with equations and problems that I am barely able to […]
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