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Look At Me Now
Quotes: “ There's no such thing as a bad person, sometimes good people do bad things.”
“The picture might come out wrong, some of the pieces might have been left behind.”
Theme:
I live my life trying to see the good in everyone I know. A quote that I enjoy is “There is no such thing as a bad person, sometimes good people do bad things.” That’s how I look at the world, trying to find what good their is in the darkness that surrounds us. Another phrase I think a lot about is, “The picture might come out wrong, some of the pieces may have been left behind.” I think about that a lot when going through my life recently because everything is basically a huge puzzle. You need to observe and learn everything that you can so the picture, or your life, comes out clear. If you forget pieces of yourself, or change what is not meant to be changed, the picture wont come out right. It will come out confusing or broken, and everything that you hold close will collapse or become wrong. I’m trying to make sure I don’t miss anything.
Setting:
I grew up surrounded by heat, as we live at the edge of a desert. When I was a kid, we learned about the seasons and how it’s “supposed,” to snow in the winter, and rain in the spring, and the leaves will fall in the fall. I learned that where we live it’s not like what they taught us at all. Here its always hot and dry and in my opinion, miserable. When I grow up I hope to move to oregon because it’s so much colder their and there are trees and forests surrounding everything. My grandparents live there along with my aunt, uncle, and cousin, so I get to visit oregon occasionally. Its beautiful up there, in the mornings it’s cold and there are birds and other animals that come out. I also like the small towns that are their because they are clean and not very populated which I like because i’m not to into being around people. My favorite thing about oregon is all of the trees, when I visit occasionally we go on walks through the forests. When you're walking you can hear the roads and towns nearby, yet you feel like you're in the middle of nowhere. We live close to a lot of cities which have too many people and are covered in trash and smog.
Conflict:
Right now I have a lot of unnecessary conflicts that I can't stop worrying and thinking about. I know that keeping my grades up in school should be my main focus or conflict, but for me that's replaced with how the world works and how me and the next person see it differently. I can't help but stress about how us as a species are destroying the earth with factories, trash, and using up its resources. The worst part is that I can’t figure out why this is one of my main focuses, and that I can’t do anything about it. Another conflict I have is not understanding others and how other people see the world. I want to see the world in every perspective that I can because, maybe if I can do this, I can understand the world a little better.
Point of View:
I view the world in every way possible, or I try to at least. I try to see every outcome of every oncoming situation that could be presented to me at any and every point of time in my life. Even if their is almost no chance of something happening in my life, I think deeply how it would effect me. Like what would I do, what would I say, how would I react and how does what I do affect people around me or in my life; how does what I do to affect those people, affect the people they know. I’ve done this as long as I can remember, I think it has to do with my fear of making someone sad or angry with me. One of my greatest fears is to make someone unhappy, well, that and bugs. I want to be able to understand how every different kind of person thinks, and perceives their world that revolves around them. I want to be able to learn how to change my perspective to their point of view just to be able to experience the same exact thing in a different way than my own.
Protagonist:
Someone in my life who is considered a protagonist is my best friend Kyla. We met in kindergarten so we have known eachother for almost 11 years now. I don’t get to see her often though because she lives halfway across the state and one of us is always busy, but she is like family to me and I miss her a lot. Every year we only get to see each other about once, or if we're lucky twice. Even when we do get to see each other though, it’s only for a few days, maybe even less. When we do get to see each other, she is the nicest person I know and I know she will always be there for me as i'd do the same for her. Out of every single person i’ve met in my life, we get along the best. In the 11 years we've known each other, we have never fought or had even the smallest disagreement. My favorite thing that we do on the chance that we do get to hangout, well, when she comes to my house at least, is we always go to seaworld. Every time we go we try to beat our record of how many times we can ride journey to atlantis before the end of the day. Right now I think it’s almost 30 or more. I hope I get to visit her again soon.
Antagonist:
I don’t really have someone to be considered the “antagonist” in my life. There are people who make me mad, or people who i’d rather not be around, but I usually just stop being around these people or they change. I don't consider anyone to be a “bad person” or someone who always is intentionally hurting others. I guess i've technically had an antagonist before in my life but when i do, it's only for a month or a year, before I never see them much again. I guess, in a way if you really think about it, i’m my own antagonist as I tend to hold myself back from my potential. I’m a shy person, though i’m trying to get better at this thing called “socialising.” Being shy affected most of my years at school because i’d never ask for help with something if needed, and i’d only do what I knew I was supposed to do. I’m also not a very organised person so I tend to lose a lot of my schoolwork before I get the chance to turn it in. I consider myself my antagonist.
Flashback:
Something big that influences my life, is the reason why i'm quiet most of the time. I am a shy person but i've been working on that, I also just dislike speaking, but the reason comes from when I was younger. As a kid, my dad would always tell me how the world worked, like how stars were formed and how the weather works or why the sky is blue. One night he explained to me how perspective worked. Not the art term, like how things look in a drawing or a photo, but how every single person sees the exact same thing differently. I remember how as he explained this to me, it irritated me and I hated that I could never see something the same as someone else. I still don’t know why I hate this fact but I do, and I deal with it in my own complicated way. I’m quiet because every moment i’m not learning something in class, or talking to someone, i’m trying to change my perspective on everything. I want to be able to see everything from every angle possible. An easier way of trying to explain what I mean by this, is how, you know how if you look into a mirror and see yourself, you will see someone different than what your best friend sees, or what a stranger sees. What i’m trying to do, is see myself how I see myself, as well as how someone else sees me. Only I do this with everything I know.
Irony:
Something I find ironic about my life is what I want to be when I grow up. I either want to be an artist or a writer, if i’m lucky both. It's ironic because up until eighth grade I hated writing. At school or doing homework i’d do everything in my power to get out of it. Everyone always told me that I was good at writing when I did get around to doing it, but I hated it anyways. Now it’s one of my favorite things to do as I write in my free time at home, and i’m working on writing this book i’ve been planning out or about a year now. Unfortunately for me, because I used to hate writing, I didn't learn very much about it when we would write in school. Therefore i'm terrible at spelling, grammar, and vocabulary. I need to try to learn that stuff at home when I write because it's not a main focus in school anymore when we write. That's also the main reason why it’s taking me so long to start to actually write the book i’ve been planning, as i’d like to get better at the basics of writing before I start.
Symbolism:
Something I could use to symbolize who I am would be a tree, a flower, or some piece of nature. A big part of my life is being around trees and animals. I prefer the quiet chirps of birds and the disruption of the wind that shifts the trees in an old forest, rather than the loud noises and man made heartaches they call buildings, planes and ships that make up the city and the ocean. Even in my hobbies I try to include nature, for example, my favorite thing to draw is a tree, or my favorite thing to write about is describing the serenity of a forest or a place and the noises that surround you. Nature is the base design of the world. It's what all of the world used to be made up of before we became “smarter” and started to build large buildings and factories. I wish it could go back to how the world used to be, or what science had proven it to have been. Their used to be much more trees and animals and everything was peaceful and beautiful, there were no wars, no major problems sending the world into chaos, and everything had a natural order to it. There are still some places like this in what we have left that hasn't yet been destroyed by us, and that’s where I want to be when I grow up. Somewhere where nature still exists, somewhere with trees and animals, and life
Foreshadow:
I think my personality foreshadows a lot of things that I hope will happen in the future. For example, my love of drawing and writing, or my hatred of the desert (heat, and the sun) and socialising. In the future, because of who I am right now, i’d hope to be living in the forest somewhere where it’s cold, in a house that’s not too big but not small either. It will be a mile or so away from other houses as I like it quiet and I prefer to be alone. I’d like to have written a few books by then which could be a source of money for myself to live on. In my house no matter what happens with my life, i'll have an art studio where I can draw and paint and be alone with myself and my thoughts. I know my life won’t be exactly like that when I grow up because I know I will change, and I hope I do. When I was little, it was probably foreshadowed that I was going to be an artist of some kind. I remember how I would always ask for writing journals and i’d fill them up with drawings. I didn’t know you could buy books with blank pages specifically for drawing so my family wasn't always too pleased when they found all the writing paper I would waste. Years later, and i’m still drawing, and i'm hoping to improve my art and that's why I draw so much. The more I practice, the faster I will get to my goals I set for myself.
Quotes: “ There's no such thing as a bad person, sometimes good people do bad things.”
“The picture might come out wrong, some of the pieces might have been left behind.”
Theme:
I live my life trying to see the good in everyone I know. A quote that I enjoy is “There is no such thing as a bad person, sometimes good people do bad things.” That’s how I look at the world, trying to find what good their is in the darkness that surrounds us. Another phrase I think a lot about is, “The picture might come out wrong, some of the pieces may have been left behind.” I think about that a lot when going through my life recently because everything is basically a huge puzzle. You need to observe and learn everything that you can so the picture, or your life, comes out clear. If you forget pieces of yourself, or change what is not meant to be changed, the picture wont come out right. It will come out confusing or broken, and everything that you hold close will collapse or become wrong. I’m trying to make sure I don’t miss anything.
Setting:
I grew up surrounded by heat, as we live at the edge of a desert. When I was a kid, we learned about the seasons and how it’s “supposed,” to snow in the winter, and rain in the spring, and the leaves will fall in the fall. I learned that where we live it’s not like what they taught us at all. Here its always hot and dry and in my opinion, miserable. When I grow up I hope to move to oregon because it’s so much colder their and there are trees and forests surrounding everything. My grandparents live there along with my aunt, uncle, and cousin, so I get to visit oregon occasionally. Its beautiful up there, in the mornings it’s cold and there are birds and other animals that come out. I also like the small towns that are their because they are clean and not very populated which I like because i’m not to into being around people. My favorite thing about oregon is all of the trees, when I visit occasionally we go on walks through the forests. When you're walking you can hear the roads and towns nearby, yet you feel like you're in the middle of nowhere. We live close to a lot of cities which have too many people and are covered in trash and smog.
Conflict:
Right now I have a lot of unnecessary conflicts that I can't stop worrying and thinking about. I know that keeping my grades up in school should be my main focus or conflict, but for me that's replaced with how the world works and how me and the next person see it differently. I can't help but stress about how us as a species are destroying the earth with factories, trash, and using up its resources. The worst part is that I can’t figure out why this is one of my main focuses, and that I can’t do anything about it. Another conflict I have is not understanding others and how other people see the world. I want to see the world in every perspective that I can because, maybe if I can do this, I can understand the world a little better.
Point of View:
I view the world in every way possible, or I try to at least. I try to see every outcome of every oncoming situation that could be presented to me at any and every point of time in my life. Even if their is almost no chance of something happening in my life, I think deeply how it would effect me. Like what would I do, what would I say, how would I react and how does what I do affect people around me or in my life; how does what I do to affect those people, affect the people they know. I’ve done this as long as I can remember, I think it has to do with my fear of making someone sad or angry with me. One of my greatest fears is to make someone unhappy, well, that and bugs. I want to be able to understand how every different kind of person thinks, and perceives their world that revolves around them. I want to be able to learn how to change my perspective to their point of view just to be able to experience the same exact thing in a different way than my own.
Protagonist:
Someone in my life who is considered a protagonist is my best friend Kyla. We met in kindergarten so we have known eachother for almost 11 years now. I don’t get to see her often though because she lives halfway across the state and one of us is always busy, but she is like family to me and I miss her a lot. Every year we only get to see each other about once, or if we're lucky twice. Even when we do get to see each other though, it’s only for a few days, maybe even less. When we do get to see each other, she is the nicest person I know and I know she will always be there for me as i'd do the same for her. Out of every single person i’ve met in my life, we get along the best. In the 11 years we've known each other, we have never fought or had even the smallest disagreement. My favorite thing that we do on the chance that we do get to hangout, well, when she comes to my house at least, is we always go to seaworld. Every time we go we try to beat our record of how many times we can ride journey to atlantis before the end of the day. Right now I think it’s almost 30 or more. I hope I get to visit her again soon.
Antagonist:
I don’t really have someone to be considered the “antagonist” in my life. There are people who make me mad, or people who i’d rather not be around, but I usually just stop being around these people or they change. I don't consider anyone to be a “bad person” or someone who always is intentionally hurting others. I guess i've technically had an antagonist before in my life but when i do, it's only for a month or a year, before I never see them much again. I guess, in a way if you really think about it, i’m my own antagonist as I tend to hold myself back from my potential. I’m a shy person, though i’m trying to get better at this thing called “socialising.” Being shy affected most of my years at school because i’d never ask for help with something if needed, and i’d only do what I knew I was supposed to do. I’m also not a very organised person so I tend to lose a lot of my schoolwork before I get the chance to turn it in. I consider myself my antagonist.
Flashback:
Something big that influences my life, is the reason why i'm quiet most of the time. I am a shy person but i've been working on that, I also just dislike speaking, but the reason comes from when I was younger. As a kid, my dad would always tell me how the world worked, like how stars were formed and how the weather works or why the sky is blue. One night he explained to me how perspective worked. Not the art term, like how things look in a drawing or a photo, but how every single person sees the exact same thing differently. I remember how as he explained this to me, it irritated me and I hated that I could never see something the same as someone else. I still don’t know why I hate this fact but I do, and I deal with it in my own complicated way. I’m quiet because every moment i’m not learning something in class, or talking to someone, i’m trying to change my perspective on everything. I want to be able to see everything from every angle possible. An easier way of trying to explain what I mean by this, is how, you know how if you look into a mirror and see yourself, you will see someone different than what your best friend sees, or what a stranger sees. What i’m trying to do, is see myself how I see myself, as well as how someone else sees me. Only I do this with everything I know.
Irony:
Something I find ironic about my life is what I want to be when I grow up. I either want to be an artist or a writer, if i’m lucky both. It's ironic because up until eighth grade I hated writing. At school or doing homework i’d do everything in my power to get out of it. Everyone always told me that I was good at writing when I did get around to doing it, but I hated it anyways. Now it’s one of my favorite things to do as I write in my free time at home, and i’m working on writing this book i’ve been planning out or about a year now. Unfortunately for me, because I used to hate writing, I didn't learn very much about it when we would write in school. Therefore i'm terrible at spelling, grammar, and vocabulary. I need to try to learn that stuff at home when I write because it's not a main focus in school anymore when we write. That's also the main reason why it’s taking me so long to start to actually write the book i’ve been planning, as i’d like to get better at the basics of writing before I start.
Symbolism:
Something I could use to symbolize who I am would be a tree, a flower, or some piece of nature. A big part of my life is being around trees and animals. I prefer the quiet chirps of birds and the disruption of the wind that shifts the trees in an old forest, rather than the loud noises and man made heartaches they call buildings, planes and ships that make up the city and the ocean. Even in my hobbies I try to include nature, for example, my favorite thing to draw is a tree, or my favorite thing to write about is describing the serenity of a forest or a place and the noises that surround you. Nature is the base design of the world. It's what all of the world used to be made up of before we became “smarter” and started to build large buildings and factories. I wish it could go back to how the world used to be, or what science had proven it to have been. Their used to be much more trees and animals and everything was peaceful and beautiful, there were no wars, no major problems sending the world into chaos, and everything had a natural order to it. There are still some places like this in what we have left that hasn't yet been destroyed by us, and that’s where I want to be when I grow up. Somewhere where nature still exists, somewhere with trees and animals, and life
Foreshadow:
I think my personality foreshadows a lot of things that I hope will happen in the future. For example, my love of drawing and writing, or my hatred of the desert (heat, and the sun) and socialising. In the future, because of who I am right now, i’d hope to be living in the forest somewhere where it’s cold, in a house that’s not too big but not small either. It will be a mile or so away from other houses as I like it quiet and I prefer to be alone. I’d like to have written a few books by then which could be a source of money for myself to live on. In my house no matter what happens with my life, i'll have an art studio where I can draw and paint and be alone with myself and my thoughts. I know my life won’t be exactly like that when I grow up because I know I will change, and I hope I do. When I was little, it was probably foreshadowed that I was going to be an artist of some kind. I remember how I would always ask for writing journals and i’d fill them up with drawings. I didn’t know you could buy books with blank pages specifically for drawing so my family wasn't always too pleased when they found all the writing paper I would waste. Years later, and i’m still drawing, and i'm hoping to improve my art and that's why I draw so much. The more I practice, the faster I will get to my goals I set for myself.