Where I'm Calling From

What did he mean ‘Just be careful’? I’m sure it wasn’t anything to worry about. If it were really important, he would have gone into more detail, right? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I could not be more relieved walking into my apartment after the long day I had…

times I feel as if I'm your punching bag, even though I know you don't mean it in that way. I take the punches without retaliating because maybe it's what you needed; to let out all the emotions that are bundled up. I guess listening is what I'm good at, but I struggle with replying at times. You are my guiding light. The lighthouse at the edge of the bay, calling me home always. No matter what, I will always be your little girl and I will always need you, but things are changing. I'm almost 18,…

knew something dreadful happened when I ran to my father, who was tensely watching CNN. Holding onto every word, I heard the spokesperson, “Three Muslims in the Chapel Hill-Raleigh area have been killed.” Everything suddenly made sense; my mom was calling to check on my two cousins at UNC. I never expected the prominence of the lack of jurisdiction on my life as a Muslim to be put into perspective. On February 10, 2015, a man named Craig Stephen Hicks took the lives of Deah, Yusor, and Razan,…

As I’m thinking of this there goes my dog no Brice get over here I yelled a few times, he is running the oppist way of the dog ok I’m thinking is he afraid of the dog or is he going to attack that dog not knowing what to do I chested after him after 30 min of running up and down the streets and in the woods and out I…

and what looked like half a earring in the middle of her bottom lip. “ Who’s that” “Where did she…

Bougie, it’s a word that my brother has called me multiple times and I was never a hundred percent sure what he was really calling me. In an attempt to contradict him I looked up the meaning of the word, and sadly I couldn’t contradict him a bit. The word bougie is stolen from the French word bourgeois, which means -according to Webster's dictionary- marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity. In America, the slang word bougie translates to…

Callings by Dave Isay helps me imagine the life I want to lead by showing me the passion and commitment people have for the work they perform. Each short story told in callings contains a reason why work is important to that particular person and how he or she got to that point in their life, whether it was easy to find what they wanted to do or hard. Each story had something meaningful to draw from, but there were four stories in particular that stuck out the most. The first story that stuck…

lot of examples where Holden showed no integrity in the book. The first and the best one would be how he does not have enough courage to tell his parent that he got kicked out of school and tries to come back home later and lie to them that everything is ok. He is ready to stay alone in the hotel with nobody who can support him drink and smoke cigarettes instead of going home and telling his parents the truth. Another good example of Holden having no integrity would be this quote from the book…

impression of her best friend, thinking of the reason he needed her in the first place. “Well, I made some modifications on Goddard’s ‘lie detector’ unit, and-” Immediately she scoffed, crossing her arms. “Who and what do you think I am Nerdtron? Carl? I’m not a lab rat for your stupid experiments!” To confirm how annoyed this seemed to make her, she changed her position…

and hospitalized in intensive and critical care for many months. I’ve experienced years of challenges in academics; I couldn’t read or write and had severe learning deficits. This led to high levels of frustration and pain and resulted in suspension from college. Other challenges were evident in areas of…