The More You Look, The Less Of It You Want To See
Seeing yourself in the mirror can be the most horrifying experience if you have troubling insecurities. I don't mean a literal mirror but one that forces us to look within ourselves; we all carry tiny ones in our pockets anyway. "Sh*tty first drafts." That's what I heard, not once but, a few times last week when we begin our college essay workshops. But that got me thinking. Aren't our essays just demonstrating a little part of our "sh*ttiness" to colleges to show that we've grown in some profound way? It's innately unnatural to want to write about a difficult moment or experience that showed you needed to grow or change. We're all roughly 17 years old trying to make it in this world, and we've had enough of people telling us we're not good enough, certainly ourselves. Writing an essay about that? Forget it. So why do we do it? Well, apart from the blatantly obvious fact that we ha...