Nonfiction

Picture yourself in a subway station, great. Now, picture the people, the noise, the roar of the 2:30 departure. Now picture that you are alone, that there are no people, no noise, no roar of the 2:30 departure because there isn’t one.

I look around, admiring the gorgeous flowers and fresh mulch, if you blink you might miss it; if you’re rushing you might not even notice. It’s an ode to calming down and taking a moment, giving a chance to reflect.

For the first time, I realised what life was all about. It is about getting to live your life. It is going to spend more time with your family because you love them. When you get mad or angry at them you still love them because they are your family.

     There was this girl named Anna. Anna had been keeping something from her friend. She has had trouble with friends before knowing the secret and them using her for this.

             At the beginning of middle school I thought that life was just about making friends or making sure everyone liked you.

Have you ever had that same dream when you are sick or something and you are in a wierd place? If so, thats a fever dream. They occur when you're sick and no one really knows why.

For the first time, I was beginning to understand what life is all about. Life is like a stream of water. In the stream, there are different fish and the stream sometimes leads to different paths.

“For the first time, I was beginning to understand what life was all about.” When Covid-19 first started we had a CYO’s  tournament for basketball. We couldn't do it because it got cancelled.

Sometimes I feel that the world is going so fast that I can't keep up. And I just have to stop and think. A lot of the time when I have to rush out of the house I am going in circles and I can't get anything done.

For the first time, I was beginning to understand what life is all about. It's about spending time with people like family, friends, and people you care about. It is not all games, money and all that extra stuff. It's not all fun and games.

I didn’t particularly care about having a sister, at the ripe age of 3 it was indifferent to me and as long as I didn’t have to share my toys. I guess I didn’t know I would be getting a companion, a best friend.

I watch the inauguration live on TV in my school library. The clouds literally parted in DC right when Lady Gaga started singing. I felt my heart pounding along with the beat of the "President's own Marine Corps band".