Shed a Tear

Dear four year old self, I solemnly swear to always be right. And in the words of Anne Lamott, the author of Bird by Bird, “perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” Growing up, I have learned and experienced my fatal flaw, pride. That a minor moment in time has unconsciously impacted my mindset in life. I hated the feeling of making mistakes; therefore I tried to never make any. It sounds a tad exaggerated, however, it’s true. I was three years old, when I was…

PS11Q Rudaiya Akhter Class 601 April 30,2017 The Giver : Alternative Ending They went down the hill on the sled. Faster and faster they went, the small cold crystals stinging Jonas’s face but he didn’t care because he knew that everything was going to be alright in a bit. Jonas looked around when something caught his eye. It was small and hidden but he had seen it and knew that it would bring…

“The Tantrum” by AE Stallings initially describes a situation wherein a child allegedly suffers the loss of her mother, however the poet does not explicitly state that the mother has suffered a physical death. In this poem, AE Stallings uses the extended metaphor of “the tantrum” to describe the severed relationship between the mother and child, and further builds on the melancholic tone of the poem through the use of diction. This poem describes a child’s perceived loss of her mother to world,…

When caught sight of Santa by the grinches, they quickly ran away, when came in shining his candy cane up in the air, the elves glad that Santa had come, ran up to him and cried tears of joy. After eating fresh cookies and cold milk that came Santa, the elves quickly rushed back to work, to make presents for all the nice children that had done good deeds, although the elves have suffered from the grinches, they will never forget…

The Loss CREAK went the door. My mom had just come home from the vet. She then called me from downstairs. I didn’t like the sound of her tone. Was something wrong? Am I in trouble? I dart down there to find out. I started thinking about the last time she called me like this. It was about nana dying that time. I moped around the house the rest of the day. Hopefully it’s not something related to that! When I got there mom had a strange look on her face. She and dad had just finished bringing our…

Three slender fingers held onto to the string she'd pulled back, all the tension focused in her back and shoulder as she brought the string back to the side of her mouth. The arrow pointed at the target and with a soft breath out she let it fly. A sly smile crossed her lips as the arrow hit the target with a satisfying thud. There was a theraphy to archery. Something about pulling the arrow back and letting go, it was like the problems inside you left with the arrow. Concentration was also key…

Góða Nótt Elskan: Goodnight, Darling The particularity of someone who matters enough to grieve over is worth acknowledging. “The integrity with which we remember [them]…” contributes to self-knowledge and a more comprehensively shaped worldview, through the utilization of meaning derived within this acknowledgement (Campbell, Koggel,& Jacobsen, 2014, p.45). In fact, it is because of meaning that one may devoid death of its assumed unfamiliar, yet strikingly shameful, damage. Grief is one of…

to I remembered he liked the pink and white bloomed laurel. As I rushed to the laurel a cool icy stroke of breeze hit me. Then I saw the yellow bright sun setting and the blue and pink sky. I saw a shadow and ran to it. My face lit up and tears came down as I saw him sleeping on top of a maple tree. He was on a branch holding the white gloves. Then I asked myself “why? Why was he holding the gloves?…

I had moments of tears in the initial six weeks postpartum. It felt just like it did with my other two. I just had a baby and emotions are normal. Around weeks seven and eight postpartum, I began feeling an immense sense of fear. I was scared to take my three kids out in public because I felt like someone would try to take one of them. Anytime I did venture out, I was always on alert, thinking about my exit strategy or defense mechanism. Then, the fear grew in to fear with "mommy guilt" as I…

Kelly Clarkson, the first “American Idol” finalist to win the world wide sensation singing contest, has recently performed in the last season of “American Idol” - Season 15, and she proved that 15 years later, she is still the most epic idol ever and cried over it. Fans following American Idol know that Kelly Clarkson was the first person to ever make a hit out of being the first “American Idol” to win the competition. She brought wave after wave of No. 1 hits but “E!” describes her as the No.…