Burger King Research Paper

As we grow older, as we ripen in the sunlight of Time, certain feelings, senses, or objects lose their importance, they lose their capacity to place us in awe. I remember as a child, I remember the state of euphoria I would find myself thrown into as I heard my mother: “You guys can get Burger King tonight.” Burger King, along with other unethically delicious food-companies, was the forbidden treasure; and all forbidden pleasures, ephemeral or not, become a source of euphoria upon their entrance into accessibility. But the more accessible they become, the less obscure they turn out to be, the less exciting they are. In a world where mountains are made of gold, Men murder over granite.
As human beings we have this tendency to constantly strive …show more content…
School, friends, society, stress and ambition; my love for games lost themselves, as a pretty rose vanishes in the great garden. But that storytelling tendency, that impulse to give life to the white paper that stares back at you, as a painter yearns to fill his canvas, as a musician cries to wake his flute, remained in me; it did not die- unlike a boxful of other things- with …show more content…
I went for it, I gave random names and made characters out of them, points and adventures that accumulated one after another, they seemed disconnected but they were a start. I began writing it on a little black notebook, during my Arabic classes when I would sit in the back just to have time to finish a chapter during the fifty-five long minutes where the teacher spoke about more grammar, and things that did not interest me. I was obsessed, I no longer worried about the money, and the restaurant lost itself amongst name like Alan and Lydia, amongst the lines of Black