During my freshman year of college, I had met one of my best friends, who go by name Jill. (She lives in New Jersey and while I live in Pennsylvania) I found it to be strange that sometimes, it feels like we have grown up with one another but in reality we have only one another for four years and I couldn’t be more thankful. I can remember when we met at school as if it was yesterday.
Growing up in Carrollton, a suburb of Dallas, there was never much to do. Consequently, I spent most of my time either reading or watching sports. Both were objects of fantasy, from the world of fiction in novels to the high-flying superstars in the NBA. However, I believed anything was possible.
It’s 5:30 AM. The alarm beeps at a steady pace as Cassandra slowly awakens. She slammed the snooze button, and let out a groan. Cassandra didn’t hate mornings, or waking up, but she did hate school.
EVEN IN THIS desolate, mangled world, where the foundations of all things have collapsed, there were some things that endured. There still existed things of everlasting value. Whiskey, for example.
“When he comes to,” the doctor then told her as he touched a hand to my mama’s arm. “Right now the most important thing for him is to rest. After a head injury your brain needs time to heal, time to reset itself and allow for inflammation to go down. Sleep is the best thing for that. If you ladies would like, you can see him for a few minutes, but that is all. After that you might as well go back home for a while, and we’ll call you when he wakes up.”
For a lot of people the best moments of their lives are major life events like the birth of their children or getting married, for me it was a simple weekend with my mom. About a year ago I had a doctor’s appointment to check how my ear was doing because three months prior to that I had surgery to repair my hearing and create a new eardrum, but that’s a different story. This particular doctor was two hours away in Lebanon and I didn’t enjoy waking up at seven to go to a 20 minute check up with something I already knew the outcome of.
As I walk in the cafeteria, wonder what I am going to eat. I pack my own lunch but I really do not feel like eating the peanut butter jelly. I have to make a decision fast because I have C3 lunch and the food goes by really fast. As soon as I get into the serving lines, I see that today's they have my favorite food, which is nachos. As I go through the lines, tall people are stepping over me and the loud ones do not notice me. I notice that my favorite lunch lady with the grey pixie cut and irish accent is not here today but as usual I get into the same line and wait for my turn to receive food. The replacement lunch lady gives me a few chips and a really tiny amount of cheese and a lot of the ground beef. I love nachos but now I am disappointed, the servings should be
For almost my entire life, I have lived happily in Ethiopia with my parents, my sisters and my brothers. Because my dad is extremely religious, I started practicing Christianity at an early age. My father took the whole family to church services almost every day. He was very strict and all of his rules are Bible-based. He read the Bible aloud to us and everything was related to God’s word. He made us read the Bible again and again. Our dad was always telling us, “No sex before marriage”, which is biblically right. We were always mindful of the Bible’s teachings, which helped me deal with the emotional and physical trauma of when my ex-boyfriend raped me.
Change. From the first breath inhaled to the last, we change hundreds, thousands, of millions of times throughout the entirety. These changes may not always be so obvious, whereas others are distinct. Change is inevitable, especially as the environment, technology, economy, and people develop. Us, human beings, are flexible, able to adapt and survive. However, as we adapt to these changes, we cannot let these changes compromise our beliefs and principles by which we abide and hold close to our hearts.
Have you ever had your heart ripped out of your chest cavity in your most vulnerable time and had it crushed by the weight of 1,000 suns? No? Well I have. And I’m not talking in the romantic sense, or that of a deep love for someone, I’m talking about the fiery fervor of fandom. Whether it’s fandom for a sports team, a band, or a television show, mostly everyone is a fan of something. Of all the things that i'm a fan of, my biggest fandom is for the San Antonio Spurs, the only professional sports team in San Antonio, Texas, where I was born and raised. The Spurs are a historically great franchise winning 60% of all of their games ever played, and winning five NBA championships. But it hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows for the Spurs, in fact quite recently there was a very dark period for the team, where a single shot leveled the morale of the team and an
There are several experiences I’ve been through during my life, but witnessing my 13-year-old cousin suffer from a gunshot wound is one that is unbearable. Some people may say everything happens for a reason but, after four years of this nightmare, I’m still clueless on why my little cousin is no longer here with me. Every since the day he passed, my life hasn’t been the same. I was told at one point that I was wilding out, but that wouldn’t bring my cousin back. My feelings are conflicted because, it’s pretty obvious that being calm won’t bring him back either.
Eff was absolutely certain that if she didn’t get this mission right, she was to be beheaded. She’d never heard of the royal family to be very lenient, so if this person she had to save had even a scratch, she was sure to be a goner.
What was your favorite part of 2017? I had many ups and downs this year, but one of my favorite things was when we took a family trip out West. We went to so many fun places. I loved going whitewater river rafting in Cody, Wyoming. Horseback riding in Togwotee was so fun, and the mountains were beautiful. We drove for hours and hours in the car! Going out West was probably the highlight of my year.
It was late December and the only person who was awake in the Lake family was Tom. Tom was an early riser and the latest he has ever slept in was about nine thirty and he slowly sat up when he woke up. All at once it registered, it was christmas. Tom was on his feet and was running to the living room to open the presents. Toms house is small for a family of four but it works. Tom's room was in the upstairs corner of the house and was the farthest away from the living room. He ran down the stairs thinking about all of the things that he would get. The one thing that he wanted the most was a new two wheeled red huffy bike. Even though he could not ride it but he wanted to be cool to say he had a two wheeled bike. When he got to the bottom of
However, my family’s daily schedule was already complicated enough. Without anything to feed my interests, my attitudes toward school changed. By the time I reached the 10th grade, I had lost my aspirations. I was still excelling in math and science mostly because it would come out naturally. For my junior year, I went to a new school. Because of my A in geometry, the school principal enrolled me in advanced math. I did not know what this meant until I showed up to class the next day. I was lost and felt like a complete outsider. What is more, my classmates seemed to know everything while I had no clue of what was going on. As a result, and for the first time in my life, I got an F on a test. At the beginning this appeared to be a curse. Yet, it turned out to be the key to my future. The teacher’s encouragement incentivized me to work harder and consequently my grades began