College Admissions Essay: Nothing In The World

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College Essay " Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. I have found a place where I am perfectly content and all I need is to be there. Whenever my feeling of stress and unhappiness swell up in me to a point where it is unbearable I always find myself in my backyard. From the trickling sounds of the water, to the swaying branches of the trees, to the baby blue sky covered in alabaster clouds, all contributes to the clearing of my mind and soul. After a few times of this repeating I quickly learned to not wait until the very last second to find clarity. To give everything that I do my all but to not

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