Wednesday, April 6, 2016
The boy: yesterday, today and tomorrow--Aileen
Yesterday the boy would play outside, he would run and kick a ball around the vast field with his
friends. He would explore his surroundings and yearn to solve the mysteries of his curiosities.
He would ride his bike in the park and swing up and down the swing set. He would play tic tac
toe and run after the ice cream truck as his mouth watered for a popsicle. He would smile real
big and kiss his parents goodnight. He was joyful and excited to see what adventures each day
had to offer. Today the boy is confused. He doesn’t even know his true identity. He feels lost,
anxious and frustrated. Any incommodity turns him impatient. Sometimes he feels like there isn’t
even a point to his life. He shines a vague smile and puts on a confident attitude, but inside, oh
inside he couldn’t be in a darker place. He puts himself down and feels alone, abandoned. What
went wrong? Not even he knows, but it’s as if he were stuck. Unable to let go and move on to
face his destined future. He is stuck in his own selfish thoughts and desires. He tries to mend
his pain and emptiness by facing a bright screen and sustaining himself with unhealthy
addictions, not even attempting to socialize or come in contact with the beauty of his
surroundings. He’s losing hope. If only he knew that there was nothing wrong with him, he was
perfectly perfect and he has a greater purpose. The potential to accomplish so so much, if he
just had a little faith in himself and worked a little harder. Tomorrow, the boy will be a man and
he will look back on today and realize he had nothing to worry about. He will have learned from
his experiences and grown into the strong, successful man that he had inside of him all along.
He will appreciate everyone who had supported him through the years, that he didn’t
acknowledge back then. He will be filled with love and compassion to reach out to those who
are in the place he was, spreading the hope he thought he never had. He will be faced with
trials and challenges in his everyday life from work, to bills to family obligations, but as he faces
these situations, he will not fall. He will stand firm in who he is and what he believes, not letting
the mundane customs rub off on his rich culture and values. He will build a family and have a
boy of his own to whom he will support, encourage, love unconditionally and most importantly
show him that no matter what he goes through or what life throws at him, he is strong and
worthy of the best. His little boy will grow up knowing that the little boy version of himself will
always be inside of him no matter how old he grows, he can always find that childlike joy and
innocence awaiting the day's “adventures” with a positive outlook. For in the end no matter what
happened yesterday, what happens today or what happens tomorrow, everything will be okay.
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I feel like this can apply to just about anyone, periods of happiness and excitement tend to be followed by confusion, later to only be seen a small complication. Well done, your piece sums up life as a whole, to me anyway. Everything will be okay, it just takes time to see.
ReplyDeleteThis boy is all of us whether we want to admit it or not. Sadly a lot of us have lost this sense of childhood to today,, but it's nice knowing there's always a tomorrow. There was so much needed hope in this, great job. - Alyssa Tandoc, Per 4
ReplyDeleteThe repetition (I believe it's called anaphora) put a lot of emphasis on the events that unfolded. This is a great story of pulling oneself up by their bootstraps, classic redemption.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alyssa Tandoc, when we were young it seemed as if the world was just a big playground with no care about what will happen the next day. We as young adults are all in the stage where it seems as if we're stuck, we uncertain of the future, especially for us seniors reality is a month away. Just like the boy, we will pass through that stage and enjoy the experiences and memories we've had and the many more that will come. Good job.
ReplyDelete-Oyinda Akinnusi
The parallelism in this piece did a great job on putting emphasis on the trials and tribulations a person will have throughout life. I agree with the fact that periods of uncertainty are only temporary and make us stronger at the end of the day.
ReplyDeleteI like this piece because it accurately represents the typical stages of life that people are to go through. I feel this is a great encouragement right now for all the seniors who are moving on to the real world. We are afraid of what is out there, and it will probably be a tough journey, but in the end, there will be a glorious finale.
ReplyDeleteAwesome Work! It was a really good pain reliever for me.
I really liked how relatable this piece was. It's easy to look back on situations that once seemed puzzling and frustrating and to realize everything cleared up. With the end of high school coming up I think this piece is a good reminder that whatever complications we went through in the past four years, are very small compared to what we accomplished. Great Job! :)
ReplyDeleteVery powerful piece! I love how you used a third person point of view because I feel like this piece could have been told in first person, but the use of this narrator really told the story from an outside perspective and allowed the audience to see all the different sides of the character. Really nice and inspirational story!
ReplyDelete-Chloe Hopkins
This piece is another great representation of what we all feel, or will feel. Its such a strong point of the trails one goes through now aren't going to destroy every ounce of your future. But the overlying message that the future is inevitable but what you face now only makes you stronger in the future. Great read!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this piece because it is very well written and I feel like many people can relate to it and how the boy is feeling. I especially liked the ending because there is a sense of hope that everything will eventually turn out okay. Great job!
ReplyDelete-Kathlyn Juarez
Good post. Moving on from high school is bittersweet. The long trek (Excluding College) is over and we're about to move on in our life. This is great but that transition is the scary thing.
ReplyDeleteOMG this was sooo cute! Truly loved it, such an inspiration to all and perfectly said! Its very true that sometime in our life we will feel like the world is just to heavy to carry on our shoulders, but we all have to strive to get back up again and be a light to someone else.
ReplyDeleteAileen this was wonderful. I love that you made today basically us and the stage we are in because we all are pretty much confused and have no idea what we're doing. Well at least I don't. But thank you so much for writing a story that reminds me that I do have a greater purpose and it will all be okay.
ReplyDeleteAileen this was amazing. I loved how relate able you made it with the feelings of the future some seniors are having, and then ended it by reminding them of the wonderful future that they have in front of them.
ReplyDeleteI believe we all go through life, experiencing the same as the main character did, carefree and content with life, then that brief period of hardship and unknowing, that allows us to develop and achieve success in our endeavors. I thoroughly enjoyed the eloquence and overall flow of your piece! Perhaps my favorite part about the work as a whole is your portrayal of time as today, tomorrow, and yesterday, which brought into perspective the ideology that hardships, and even periods of content are fleeting, but life still progresses and we learn to deal with whatever comes our way either good or bad. Job well done!
ReplyDelete-Pavia Omolewa
This piece is great. It is well written and relatable!I truly enjoyed the aspect of moving on, that the things we have done will be seen in the future as funny, or sad, but something definitely accomplished or something that has been overcome. Great job!
ReplyDelete-Jerelle Medina p.3
I feel like this piece is applicable to everyone as well in some type of way. The journey of life has its ups and downs with different phases filled with hardships and great times all together. At times we feel helpless and lose faith in ourselves but one day we will come to the realization that all our hard work was worth it and that all the tough times we endured made us stronger in the end. Nice job :)
ReplyDeleteI like this piece so much because it's relatable and it motivates me to want to do better in everything. Good Job
ReplyDelete-Sirikanya Boonyanant
The innocence of a child ends when they start to think of the future, that's my way of thinking. The future is toiled with the troubles of adults and they rot away a child's innocence. We all look back to the days when we were young and full of energy, back to the days when we were only worried about how our favorite TV character will overcome their problems. This piece really reminded me of some personal stuff that had happen around middle school, "The day I became... A MAN!!!" which was ironically not the case. There are times as a child when we are confused, hurt, depressed, or we just stop "functioning." However we overcome those hardships and learn from them, develop into a better version of ourselves. -Brian Rojas
ReplyDeleteA beautiful and hopeful piece that can directly relate to the reader. Good Job!
ReplyDeleteRight in the feels. It was kind of sad reading this because it made me realize that we are all about to enter adulthood. The pain and suffering of adolescence is something I can say probably confuses us all but you're right - in the end everything will be okay. Great job!
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