high school metaphor

High school could easily be compared to a wave. Waves that line the coast. Before waves roll on to the shore they are out at sea just waiting with all of the other waves. We start out as freshmen and are unsure about everything. All the other waves are your friends from middle school who are also waiting to get into the scene and stereotypes of high school. As you near the end of your freshman year and the duration of your sophomaore year you are getting sucked closer and closer to shore. You begin to hang around with upper classmen, attend parties, you may even throw your own party. Once you are at the peak of the wave , the highest point of intensity, you have made it to your jounior year. You start to struggle to stay on top. In the final stage of the wave you fold over and are rushing at top speed toward the beach. As a senior you are having as much fun as possible, yet at the same time you are reminded that the future, or the beach, is closer than you think. Finally the wave hits land and you are done. Now you feel alone again but in a different way. You now have to face the challenges of being out on your own. You no longer have the your parents, or the gulf, protecting you. You are forced to relearn your surroundings and ride another wave all over again.

icons are fun

The Olympic representing are a major icon. Representing peace and fellowship they are known worldwide. It is a way to bring nations together through entertainment and competition. It also represents tradition and consistancy because of the fact that it happens anually. It represents motivation and passion. The atheletes train all their life with the hopes of winning an object plated in gold. The five different colors on each individual ring reflrect the diversity of those involved.

Every great magic trick consists of three great parts or acts. The first part is called the "The Pledge." The magician shows you somthing ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird, or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn." The magician takes the ordinary somthing and makes it do somthing extrodanary. Now you're looking for the secreat... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really know what to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making somthing disapear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige."
-Cutter "The Prestige"


I choose this passage not only because I like the movie but I can relate it to my life. No I am not a magician. The obvious relation is that my life is that it has three parts; begining, middle, and end. Hopefully each part better than the last. I don't think that I am exactly as people see me to be, just like if you looked furthur into the ordinary object you would see that it isn't very ordinary afterall.

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by
The rules of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes
And leap...

It's time to try defying gravity
I think I'll try defying gravity
And you can't pull me down

-Wicked

I saw this play in New York a couple years ago and really enjoyed it! I'd like to think that I am as motivated as this but unfortunatly am not. So i will try somthing new. I put this on here to remind me to work to my greatest ability.