The lights are glowing with a fuzzy haze that makes the audience beyond the curtain impossible to see. They are nothing more than a blurred darkness, yet I know they are there. Will they notice if I fall? Will they think me any less talented if I stumble? What if I mess up that one […]
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 […]
Consider a major expertise you’ve gotten confronted and its influence on you: Ramsay Corridor, in London, England, was flanked by hospitals. I grew to become used to the screeching sirens. On Thursday, July 7, 2005, I didn’t discover it uncommon to listen to so many. It wasn’t till that evening when the town was silent […]
Some issues with variety amongst Rutgers college students have lately been the topic of 5 o’clock information channels in all places with the tragic demise of a scholar whose privateness wall was shattered when a video explicated his undercover sexual orientation. That is solely the fault of some ignorant individuals and has not, in any […]
He thought there were no doors left; another one had slammed right in his face. RING! School was now in session. From my perspective, today was going to be a typical day. Time was already flying by but it wasn’t until third hour that my opinion was brought back to reality. Something was wrong. I […]
My eyes are brown. Not an amethyst-brown that intertwines with hazel swirls, or looms upon a sea of oranges and yellows. Within each encircled iris, small blue spheres are unable to be found amidst every stripe of non-existent green. They don’t turn into sapphire crystals of blue when I cry, or mountain valley greens when […]
“Seriously, Mom, I’m fine.” On a chilly March evening outside the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., my mother insistently nagged me to wear a sweater. Looking at everyone else in line for the concert, there was no way I was putting that thing on. I was sixteen years old, and if I chose to stand […]
In The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, the struggling protagonist of the novel, Edna Pontellier, is warned that, like a chook, if she doesn’t fly away from the ties of society and custom that she has been caged in, she is going to discover herself spiraling again right into a weak and damaged place. The creator […]
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 […]
“Don’t resolve one thing too quick; in any other case you’ll remorse it in more often than not.” That is what my father informed me once I was younger. In Might 2, I went to window store a wonderful gown in Siam sq. for my first promenade celebration with my good friend. We walked for […]