All That You Can't Leave Behind

Imagine being backed into a corner by a large bear that is roaring and screeching and over all, terrifying. Paralyzed and helpless, whatever is in that corner isn’t going to fare well against the bear. This is what verbal abuse feels like. The abuser attacks the victim, trapping them in a mental corner and paralyzing the victim’s brain until they are defeated, until the attacker feels like they’ve won, and the one abused gives up. Verbal abuse is damaging at any age, crippling functions of the…

Monday. You leave class, you come back the next day. Madonna is playing. It is still Monday. Your list of music Monday topics is stretching on to infinity. It has been Monday for so long. Journey is still playing. Theme essays, Miss. Hintze calls from the front of the room. She says you can do it on whatever theme you want, but you know what she wants. Six paragraphs of death drip from your fingers. You revise. Five paragraphs of death remain. The last one has escaped, you know not where. You…

head. Chin up, toes pointed, legs straight, back arched, she whispered to herself as she watched the corps members flow elegantly on stage. You have been working nonstop for this opportunity. Don’t mess it up. Taking a deep breath, Sasha lifted her arms, plastered a perfect smile on her face, and took her first step on stage. The audience’s…

When we see the word “Halloween”, what do we actually think of? I assume most of us automatically ponder about candy, costumes, pumpkins, and parties right? But have we ever actually thought of why some of our friends can’t dress up for Halloween? Probably not, the reason to this is either religious or personal beliefs (which are pretty much the same reason). Many of my friends who are Christian are forbidden to participate in this holiday because they believe that Halloween is a day to…

Lenny 22 Lenny is one of those guys in the group you need. Lenny is Fredrick’s older brother. Lenny likes to bull shit a lot about how much stuff he can get and what he has done. In truth he is…

The sorrow of memories is like “The leaves are all dead on the ground” (Frost), pushing and crushing him to the floor with no doubt. Along with only a little happiness, but hurtful memories toward him. When the night goes on, he passes by a pile of leaf, rusting and crusting as the wind blew it down. Thinking of the way how his lover has left him. He feels like one day has passed by when it strikes every hour. Even though, all he have left inside of him is sadness and regrets one…

Rabindranath Tagore said, “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,” he established that you can’t accomplish anything without having to do some type of movement and the experience you get from it. When you're at the bottom of Mount Everest and you're imagining yourself getting to the top, you physically have to do the steps to get the experience from it. You’ll never get anywhere in life if you only wait for the outcome instead of living your life. “You can’t…

who kept giving me looks all throughout my geometry class. I had never talked to this girl once in my life, not to mention it was the first day of school so I didn’t even know her. I heard that her name…

bus to swing around the corner, my brown hair is getting in my blue eyes. The air is crisp and so are the withered leaves I’m standing on. “Bye honey! Have a great day! Go get em’! Love you!”s travel through the air. I remember reading somewhere that the reason you get so paranoid and exaggerate sometimes is because your senses become overactive. Crossing my fingers that it won’t be all sixth graders, I turn around to see the bus making it’s way around the curb. The roar of the motors awakes me,…

within their school. According, to the documentary most or close to all of their students are at risk of dropping out or not graduating. An education means you have accomplished something worthwhile. If you don’t have an education you probably won’t accomplish much but that doesn’t mean you can’t. Education is important, without it you can’t go to college to get more education which again doesn’t mean you can’t get a good job. If you don’t…