“Whose footprints are these?” “What is this piece of paper that has baby footprints marked in ink with the name “Roopmathi” on the top?” My dad’s face froze, and my mom’s jaw dropped as they saw me holding the paper. I asked,“Who is Roopmathi and why do you have her footprints?” Waiting for their response, […]
Seventeen years, two eyes, one coronary heart, one mind. A kaleidoscopic of vehicles whizzes by me as I waltz from my bus cease in downtown Los Angeles to my dwelling, a government-funded house advanced. Seventeen years, two eyes, one coronary heart, one mind. Seventeen years to slay apathy, stockpile verbal ammunition, doubt the established order, […]
Swoosh. Splash. The frigid water closes over my head. Sinking into the deep blue-green of Flathead Lake, slowly I turn over and gaze up at the wind-whipped waves that make the sunlight dance on the lake floor. Slowly, I let my breath out and return to the surface. The cold, fresh air hits my face […]
Heavy respiration. Locked eyes. Pounding footsteps. I watched the quickest runner in all of Arrowhead Excessive College’s historical past. He broke the document…Then once more. This was the vivid day when my mindset of the whole world remodeled. Work ethic was in my blood since a younger age, primarily based upon spiritual values and household […]
Having breakfast every morning is more important than having a personal relationship with God. This is the way I used to think. My first two years of high school I would make sure I had time to eat breakfast every morning, but I never made time for God. I never prayed, read the bible or […]
A Chinese football player. A Bulgarian sumo wrestler. A Ghanaian skier. An Indian ballerina. All of the above can be broadly classified as contradictions. While the general public recognizes the Chinese for their superb intelligence and talent in classical music, American football isn’t usually considered a forte. Most would assume that the Bulgarian sumo wrestler […]
When my life was shortly falling out of my arms and actuality wasn’t inside attain, I felt helpless. I wanted to discover a method out by some means, somebody or one thing to affect me in a greater method by serving to me out of the most important gap I had dug myself into. All […]
Final summer season in Cancun, I used to be bored so I satisfied my household that we should always go to Tulum. Tulum with its lovely days and tropical climate all yr spherical, the place the solar is sort of all the time out, the place the ocean is turquoise blue, and the place 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 […]
On a regular basis, I carry issues with me to wherever I go, whomever I meet, no matter I am doing. Metaphorically, and actually talking. Bodily, to highschool I by no means fail to carry my pencils and papers, pockets and keys, lunch and cellphone, and a numerous variety of different objects. In my coronary […]