"When Adults say "teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly stupid smile on
their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless,
because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible
because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we
can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they
get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us, greater
than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail
("Looking" Green 220-221)."
I have faced obstacles, obstacles that have pushed me back,
obstacles that have built me up. One of these great obstacles, to say the least,
has been adults. Within this excerpt you'll note that a predominant message is
that yes, we teenagers do believe we are unbreakable, and indeed adults do
believe we are foolish for thinking this; however, they forget that they were
once in our place. When I write I like to take risks. Although I am not always
successful in those attempts, I nonetheless attempt to be that writer who puts
in the extra hours and takes the risks to be noticed, to be different. We
succeed not only by our success, but also learning from our failures. I, like
John Green, believe risks are meant to be taken. This can be seen through the
topics I write about, such as a psychological analysis of book characters (see
Inside the mind of Willy Loman), or an eloquently worded paper in the
style of the great F. Scott Fitzgerald about a horse (see My Knight), not
my Starbucks coffee drink like every other girl. This can also be seen in
my approach to tackling the challenge of not being "robo-student" (as my
sophomore Honors English teacher once described it) in the actual wording of my
writing. I try to mimic Green's tenacity in his writing, to point out the
uncomfortable obviousness of the world and bring attention to it. I try to put
myself out there and be that girl who isn't afraid to rehash the event of
getting hives in middle school by beginning my paper with the quote "mom the
ointment isn't working" (See Allergic to Stress). I do believe that we
cannot fail- not when we are invincible. I believe that we should relish in our
most embarrassing moments and peruse all the wonderfully quirky things about
ourselves, because if we do not, we will never be greater than the sum of our
parts.
their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless,
because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible
because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we
can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they
get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us, greater
than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail
("Looking" Green 220-221)."
I have faced obstacles, obstacles that have pushed me back,
obstacles that have built me up. One of these great obstacles, to say the least,
has been adults. Within this excerpt you'll note that a predominant message is
that yes, we teenagers do believe we are unbreakable, and indeed adults do
believe we are foolish for thinking this; however, they forget that they were
once in our place. When I write I like to take risks. Although I am not always
successful in those attempts, I nonetheless attempt to be that writer who puts
in the extra hours and takes the risks to be noticed, to be different. We
succeed not only by our success, but also learning from our failures. I, like
John Green, believe risks are meant to be taken. This can be seen through the
topics I write about, such as a psychological analysis of book characters (see
Inside the mind of Willy Loman), or an eloquently worded paper in the
style of the great F. Scott Fitzgerald about a horse (see My Knight), not
my Starbucks coffee drink like every other girl. This can also be seen in
my approach to tackling the challenge of not being "robo-student" (as my
sophomore Honors English teacher once described it) in the actual wording of my
writing. I try to mimic Green's tenacity in his writing, to point out the
uncomfortable obviousness of the world and bring attention to it. I try to put
myself out there and be that girl who isn't afraid to rehash the event of
getting hives in middle school by beginning my paper with the quote "mom the
ointment isn't working" (See Allergic to Stress). I do believe that we
cannot fail- not when we are invincible. I believe that we should relish in our
most embarrassing moments and peruse all the wonderfully quirky things about
ourselves, because if we do not, we will never be greater than the sum of our
parts.