Isadri's English Blog

Prompt: Write about what you remember or have been told about the day you were born. What were the emotions or events surrounding it? Do you relate more to "Infant Joy" or "Infant Sorrow"? I've heard that my Mother always told others that she didn't want children. My Mother told me that she thought that children would limit her freedom and ability to travel, because she loved to travel. However, as she got older her perspective changed. She told me that when I was born, she didn't feel trapped, rather, she felt joy. I've been told that I didn't smile until I was two or three. I would just watch, as my Mother put it. I wasn't a difficult child, or a sorrowful child either. So I think I relate more to "Infant Joy." I don't think the world is something to fear or cry about. It can be hard, sure, but it's often more beautiful and worth living more than not. 

Prompt: How do you find time to enjoy your day, even when you have a lot going on? Write about at least three specific things you do to enjoy small moments throughout your day. I find it hard to find time to enjoy my day, but I try to at least multitask. For instance, I recently have tried listening to music while doing things to make stuff somewhat more enjoyable. I also try to sit down and have dinner with my parents. Trying to keep that as a constant has been difficult, but it's proven to be worth it. Keeping that connection with my family is important to me, despite anything I've got going on. Another thing I do is to sometimes just pause and take a breath. This helps to get me back on track when there's a lot going on. I'm still figuring out more effective ways to find time, especially for things out of my control. 

Prompt: Write about something you’ve outgrown but still miss.  Something that I've outgrown but will probably still miss is Halloween. More specifically trick or treating. It's probably the best holiday for kids for two reasons: one, you get to dress up as something you like and two you get FREE candy. You basically never get anything for free, but on Halloween kids get candy just for knocking on peoples doors. While you can dispute that you've got to walk for that candy, that's basically the best part. What's better than running around AT NIGHT with your friends? When you're a child, that type of freedom is crazy and I'd like to experience that for the first time again.

A conversation that changed me was probably talking to my doctor the day my eye was taken. It was a couple days before Christmas when I was told that my cancer had come back, and my parents had to make the decision of removing or keeping my eye. To keep it meant to have the risk of my cancer escaping the eye, and into my brain, or going into other parts of my body. This was risky, and all to keep an eye that at that point didn't work anymore. Before every treatment, my doctor would always encourage me to ask questions. That's how I knew exactly how my treatments worked and such. But this time, I remember I asked, "Are you going to take my eye out?" His response is something I'll never forget, he said "No, I'm going to take out your cancer, what's hurting you." I think for a Nine year old me, that's exactly what I needed to hear, because I walked right into the operation room after that, and chose my anesthesia flavor. I don't remember muc...

Prompt: Write about what you did over the Spring Break.    Over the spring break, I went to a weekend camp for kids with cancer with my Mom, cousins ,and Aunt. It was from Friday to Sunday, but other than that I mostly slept during the break. However, My birthday happened on the break, so my father took me to go buy antique books. Then me and a friend went to a bunch of abandoned structures to take pictures, and we ended the night off by going to McDonalds to get the Minecraft movie meal. It was definitely better than the last break, because it wasn't as stressful.

Prompt: If you could plan the perfect spring break with no limitation, money, time, or responsibilities—what would it look like? Where would you go, who would you bring, and what would you do? If I could plan a spring break with no limitations, I would either do a road trip to visit every Meow Wolf installation, or go to Japan  Meow Wolf is a company that does these interactive art installations, but not just like the museum ones, it's got a story you've got to find . Like for instance on my 16th birthday we went to one in Las Vegas called Omega Mart, and it's this huge convince store looking place, but if you look closer, there is were products like Vegan Goat Pus and flowers with eyes. That's not all, it's got secret rooms. For instance, I opened up a fridge door and it was a whole hallway that led to a huge other part of the building. It was just overall very cool and i'd like to visit all of their installations. I would probably bring a notepad and pencil, ...