Three years of recollections. At times inelegant and strained but others‚ placid. In my memory you have always lived on‚ but the culpability in my heart tiptoes out when the sun reposes and the moon is thrown upon the firmament. All of which is compressed into this short letter you are reading. An adventurous and greedy man I am‚ I do admit. But please do understand my coveting of the gold and glory. “I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold”. Which
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One warm summer day my family was frantically rushing to gather all our belongings for a week long adventure out west. We were trying our best to squeeze every item in the car; finally we were ready to depart from home. I was just fourteen years of age at the time and had never been more than a few states away. The ride there was beyond exciting‚ but extra long. I believe most of that was due to the anticipation of when we would finally reach the great state of Colorado. After being in the car for
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The dog yapped wildly as its owner slowly spoke. Her voice was fairly unique‚ in that it was both squeaky and deep‚ like a distorted teenager going through puberty. The dog‚ however‚ was the usual garden variety mutt you can find digging through trash all over the country. His fur was mostly white‚ with brown streaks of indeterminate origin. I sat on an old couch that had most likely been passed down generation to generation‚ with each tear and rip being covered up with duct tape. The couch was less
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Living like a stoic was hard‚ let me tell you. Stoicism takes a lot of self control and restraint to execute properly. I chose to not overindulge myself‚ and to focus on applying negative visualization and self-control to my life. At the end of the night I would write down if something was hard or problematic that correlated with my new found Stoic life. Day two reads “I was hungry this afternoon and The Nest was closed. I had to restrain myself from going to Taco Bell and so I just settled with
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It was a warm summer night of june in 2014 earlier that day I was a squelching hot 100 above that day.And I was heading to bed and so when I got to my bed I started to read “The Hunger Games” by suzanne collins page by page.And also read every piece of black ink on the page for about 20 some minutes.But then as I was slowly falling into a dark void called sleep i hear the home phone ring. I decided that I shouldn’t answer the phone since I should be going to bed at that time of night.So I decide
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I was about eleven or twelve at the time. My mother called me into her bedroom. “Khalil‚ I have breast cancer‚” she said. Bewildered‚ confused and emotionally wounded when she proclaimed that she might not be a part of my life anymore. The announcement of her terminal illness shocked and awed me to a point in which I could not wipe the tears from my face fast enough to see properly. However‚ this experience not only made me appreciate and value my mother’s existence more‚ but‚ it also made me look
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Monday‚December of 2008‚ I woke up early about 5:00AM morning to study for final exams as I heard my bus driver repeatedly calling out my name‚ “Asmaa!! Asmaa!!” I ran down as quickly as I could from the 5th floor down until I reached a closed gate at the bottom level of our house‚ got in the bus‚ and on my way I was to take my first final. I remember having a bad feeling of going to school that day. There was a twisting gut feeling in my stomach that I could not shake. I was dropped off at school
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I asked him‚”What kind of gun did you use while you were in the service?” That question runs through my mind every time I think of Ted. Ted was my great-great uncle who served in World War II and he would give me some insight into what he experienced. Ever since I can remember‚ I have gone to visit Ted and his wife‚ Annie at their house in Evansville. The first thing that they would both do‚ upon my arrival‚ is to offer me some candy. That is a memory I will never forget because they would say‚ “Take
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Have you ever felt like your heart would beat out of your chest? That’s how I feel every time I’m on the line before a race. I love to run‚ but it comes with an extra side on nerves. As much as these nerves try to get to me‚ a little dose of nerves helped at the line for the first time. And as I may recall‚ it was the official start of my track career. Sixth grade started it all‚ running the four-hundred-meter dash for the first time. Finishing‚ with a time of a minute and six seconds‚ I won first
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My fiancé and I normally communicate clearly to one another. We do not typically have to worry about language being that much of a barrier. On one occasion‚ however‚ our use of abstraction led to a misunderstanding that led to an argument that frustrated both of us. I was drinking red wine and was tired one night. Brett (my fiancé) told me that my eyes and teeth matched: they were both red. I became offended and thought it was rude for him to point something such as this out when I had had a long
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