Every little girl grows up with Disney movies. We are told that one day Prince Charming will come for us…but what if he never does? What if instead all we are faced with as we grow up are gawking eyes and loose promises. Society is stating that today’s woman needs to be more “outgoing” in […]
“You can’t be a vet,” Nancy, my riding coach, said. “You won’t have time to ride, and you won’t like it.” My initial response was, why? Having my coach, of all people, tell me I couldn’t pursue my passion was the hardest thing. My heart dropped, and the lump in my throat grew bigger. “Because […]
They say that there are five people you meet in heaven. I never heard anyone say anything about hell. Why then, would anyone ask you to write about the three people you would meet if you decided to take a vacation to hell? I mean, of course, you would visit hell for the resorts and […]
When the engine turned over, and the soft purr of a newborn coupe filled the garage, the child of my high school determination came to life. My 1970 MGB-GT, a British sports car, was no longer a work in progress. It stood as a completed monument for all the jammed fingers, grease stained shirts, and […]
New York City is definitely a spot that’s all the time going. It’s most undoubtedly a spot that’s all the time going someplace. Someplace between vibrant lights and metropolis streets. City streets which might be all the time crowded and full of individuals and taxi cabs which might be fairly presumably all the time going. […]
Love. With out it we couldn’t attain final happiness. The Corinthians stated “If I’ve the reward of prophecy and might fathom all mysteries and all information, and if I’ve a religion that may transfer mountains, however haven’t love, I’m nothing” (13: 1-13 line 2). With love absent from our lives, we couldn’t dwell life to […]
“I love being RANDOM because pancakes are cool” Recently, I have always felt the urge to write and write and write and never stop. Despite all my schoolwork and extracurricular and what not, I wanted to unleash my thoughts onto a blank screen, satisfied that I could at least make pictures out of words. Thus, […]
I faced the sponge-shaped building, petrified by the concept of the unknown.Simmons Hall, one of the most distinctive dorm buildings on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, towered over me, framed by a grayish sky. Knots twisted in my stomach as my mom unloaded my suitcases from the rental car, paid the parking meter, and […]
An intense game of darts was at hand. That seven feet nine inches felt so much farther away than it looks. I wound up my arm, aimed for the bull’s eye, released, and hoped for the best. Not to anyone’s surprise, my dart didn’t even hit the board; in fact my dart just added another […]
I felt gravity take over, sucking me to its very core. There was no room for emotion now; I used to be enveloped in an countless continuum of silence, damaged momentarily by the rhythmic thundering of my coronary heart. After I was youthful, I used to be completely fearful of heights. I’d have nightmares during […]