Writing About A Boy

Kids are cruel...

Never a truer sentence has been spoken. Beneath the small loveable outside, the majority of them are demons. They are always straightforward about exactly what they think. They have no filter or respect of anyone's feelings. I believe more children are bullied in middle and elementary school than in high school. While the lack of a filter can be cute, it can also be menacing. Little kids are so blunt and not afraid to speak the truth that a lot of times they can offend someone. Words like "fat," "stupid," or "idiot" are thrown around in elementary school without a care at the victim. It gets even worse in middle school when people get more creative with their insults. Middle school is probably one of the worst times in most people's life as far as trying to be "cool" and not excluded. My seventh grade brother is on the football team and truly believes this fact makes in ten thousand years cooler than anyone else in his grade... not to mention both of his high school brothers. Kids are also very sensitive so when some children insult others, it is very easy for them to get their feelings hurt. All in all, I believe that children are some of the meanest, inconsiderate people on this planet earth.

P.S. I was actually not bullied in my early years so don't get the wrong idea. I love kids.

If...

If you had to name the most embarrassing moment in your life, what would it be?

It is quite hard to pinpoint one moment that was especially embarrassing or more embarrassing than the rest. In fact, I make it my life's goal to cause embarrassing or awkward moments. It is very hard to make me feel embarrassed because I do such a good job myself. I hardly ever feel "embarrassed." One moment that I remember was once on a family vacation in Dallas. I just purchased a new pair of suspenders at the mall and my brother was embarrassed. He asked my mom why I always insist on embarrassing myself. I clarified with him that I don't embarrass myself because I don't get embarrassed. In reality, I haven’t really had any embarrassing moments but I have caused other people embarrassing moments.

 

A second embarrassing moment is when I took the wrong journal on the walk that we did and I wrote all of my creative writing stuff in a different notebook and had to put paperclip the pages into my journal. It made me very sad because I didn't want to rewrite all of my things into my other journal. My whole life is just one awkward moment after another.

 

Besides embarrassing moments my life is full of awkward moments. It seems the awkward and weird people are drawn to me because they think I want to be with my own kind. Once I was picking out a mother's day card for my mom and this creepy guy came up and asked me how old I was. I told him I was sixteen and he walked away and muttered "Oh..." It was an "oh" like "Oh... too bad that's not legal." It was rather awkward and frightening at the same time.

 

 

 

12/2 (Lyrics and Places)

1.       Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there. (The Real World by Owl City).

2.       I don’t care. I love it. (I Love It by Icona Pop)

3.       La la la, Whatever. La la la, Doesn’t matter. La la la, oh well. La la la. (Tonight, Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae)

4.       I’m bleeding out, it’s the last thing that I do. So bring me down. I’m bleeding out for you. (Bleeding Out by Imagine Dragons)

5.       Restistirme imposible sera. De la manera como lo hace ninguna lo hara. (Irrestistible by Wisin y Yandel).

6.       Gold teeth, grey goose, tripping in the bathroom. Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashing the hotel room. We don’t care, we’re driving Cadillacs in our dreams. (Royals by Lorde)

7.       And though the truth may vary this ship will carry our bodies safe to shore. (Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men)

8.       Say what you wanna say. And let the words fall out. Honestly I WANNA SEE YOU BE BRAVE. (Brave by Sara Barelles.)

9.       I don’t know about you but I’m feeling 22. (22 by Taylor Swift).

10.   All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you betta run betta run faster than my gun. (Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People)

11.   That gun is loaded but it’s not in my hand. The fire burns I’m not the one with the match lit. (Red Hands by Walk off the Earth).

12.   Cause I got some intuition that maybe I’m superstitious but I think you’re a pretty sweet pill that I’m swallowing down. (Love Like Woe by The Ready Set).  

1.       Italy with Kendall and Lauren and Jeffrey

2.       London/ Harry Potter Studio with Elizabeth and Katie

3.       Spain with Kendall and Jennifer Lawrence

4.       Japan with Tim and Dad

5.       The moon with Shay and Kendall

6.       All 50 states with my family

7.       The dark streets of Mexico City with Desiree and Benedict Cumberbatch

8.       Little Cabin in the Woods with Little man and little rabbit

9.       The Hunger Games with Desiree and Jared

10.   Ireland with Kendall, Lauren, and Jeffrey

11.   France with Allie and Jeffrey

12.   Narnia with Kendall and Jeffey

Food Memory

My favorite food memory is probably about Christmas, however not on the actual holiday. The best food of this time of year is not on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, or even the snacks on New Year's Eve. The best food is on one of those nights in early December when my whole family stays home and helps set up our decorations and the tree. We spend the morning doing the outdoor lights and some of the other Christmas decorating. The afternoon we spend making all kinds of delicious snacks and desserts. Many different kinds of brownies, cookies, puppy chow, chips,  pigs in a blanket, pickle roll ups (a bread and butter pickle rolled up in a piece of salami... It's better than it sounds), sometimes salsa or guacamole, BBQ wings, pizza rolls, and many other snacks. That night, after the food is prepared we get out the tree and all of the ornaments and we snack and decorate the tree together. It is a wonderful time that we spend together and I will cherish those memories forever. Since we have moved to Springfield and moved in with our grandparents, they have also joined my family in our tree decorating ceremony of food. Many more dishes were added to the list of pleasantly unhealthy snacks. On Christmas and Thanksgiving we have certain foods that we like to eat but the menu changes from year to year. Some of my favorites are sweetpotato casserole. It is full of marshmallows and carmal sauce, which is basically a warm up for dessert. Christmas is the only time of year I eat green beans, which are in a green bean casserole. On thanks giving I prefer ham over turkey, but I can eat turkey if it is moist enough. However, none of these traditional holiday foods can stand a chance against snack night while setting up the tree. For these reasons, my favorite memories of food during the holidays have to do with the actual preparing for the holidays and not on the holiday itself.

Movie Preferences

Favorite Movie: Hunger Games, Now You See Me, Lord of the Rings

Dislikes: I don't usually like movies that are very scary or horror films. I'm too much of a wimp for that kind of stuff.

I don't usually watch movies very often. I sometimes watch movies with my family or friends. I never just sit down to watch a movie by myself.

FOR MOVIE VIEWING: Snacks, friends, popcorn, a television, candy, family, other snacks, an entertaining movie, food, a comfy chair, chocolate, and snacks.

The survey told me that I primarily watched movies for socialization and to feel good. I suppose those both fit me quite well, since I rarely ever watch a movie alone. I was surprised I did not score higher on the escapism factor, which means I watch lots of fantasy or science fiction movies that are "out of this world." Like my favorite books, movies have to have a sense of surrealism.

Photograph Writing

Prose:

 

I’m here for the inspiration. Out in these fields behind my house I can find my place in this world. There is inspiration around me. Everywhere I look is an idea, a thought, a story. Writing just feels right to me. I can forget about everything and just be me. I don’t have to worry about other people judging me, because behind the pen, no one knows who I really; I am a creator. I look down at the typewriter in front of me and read what I’ve written so far. “Here it’s safe… and here it’s warm…” Out in these fields, I can escape from the worries of my home. Here I can finally be happy.

 

Poem:

 

I’m here for the inspiration,

There is inspiration around me,

I can find my place in this world,

Out in these fields behind my house,

 

Everywhere I look is an idea,

A thought,

A story.

 

Behind the pen

I am a creator.

I can forget about everything

And just be me.

Out in these fields, I can escape from the worries of my home.

 

I don’t have to worry about other people judging me,

Because no one knows who I really am

Writing just feels right to me.

 

I look down

At the typewriter in front of me

And read what I’ve written so far.

 

Here it’s safe…

And here it’s warm…

 

Here I can finally be happy.

Photo Writing

This is...
General Goldman, a veteran of the Civil War.
Wrinkled face and dim eyes hiding the inner pain,
Staring intently into the large camera.
His dark hair and dark beard hide his once young and lively face.
Dressed up in his Sunday clothes, ready to attend the funeral of his good friend.

This is...
A man who has experienced great loss.
Suffering and remembering the deaths of his young friends.
Lonely, haunted by images of death and war.