What Does It Mean To Me Essay

Even though this piece looks a bit small and simple, I think that in itself says something about me. I prefer things to be small, organized, and simple. The things with the most color and that are surrounded by white are what I believe to be important to me and things that make me happy. The pictures towards the top that are chained and locked up and the negative emotions and things that I feel are holding me back and that I’m trying to keep out. This project was actually very hard for me because I don’t know myself. I’m a very simple person who doesn’t like to think deeply about myself. I try to keep my negative thoughts locked up, as shown by the chains and lock with no key. The pine tree on the left in the bright area represents cartoons.

It’s a tree from a shirt that one of my favorite character who inspires me to be a better person wears. Many of the cartoons I watch usually have a happy, carefree person who brings light into other people’s lives and I really want to be like that. I’m a fairly private person and I don’t like to talk about this kind of thing, but I guess I should give a small summary of what the negative stuff means. The skull peeking out of the upper left is all of my deepest, darkest thoughts. It represents my fear of being a disappointment, and the anxiety and stress that comes from that. I haven’t had a dark past or really anything necessarily bad happen to me but my parents and just entire family of perfectionists expect so much from me. It’s just always looming over my head. The weight that is dripping with water represents the weights of those expectations and the sinking, suffocating, drowning feeling I get when something goes wrong. Other than those things I’m a pretty happy person, though!! The cat with the flowers at the bottom is there to show my love of cats and nature and the beauty of the Earth. I think many people take things like that for