Jeffery's Room

I actually can't believe I’m halfway done with my senior year. It’s been a crazy 4 years with the pandemic. It's kind of cliché to say but it really felt like the time went by so fast. I feel like I never really had much time to sit back and reflect on my own growth. Now that I’ve had more time to discover my own passions and reflect on my time throughout high school, I feel extremely regretful for not pursuing my passions or pushing myself more throughout high school. For example, I always thought I was too stupid to take harder classes like AP Chem, APUSH or any AP English class. I always looked at my friends taking those classes thinking they were insane. Then my sister during my sophomore year forced me to take AP Lang and AP Physics C and while those were stressful, I learned a lot from them and I was able to learn how to manage my time and stay on top of my schedule. Obviously, taking too many APs isn’t necessarily a good thing, but I realized through Junior and Senior y...

              At the dawn of humanity, we have been telling stories. From the pictures drawn on tablets to a summer blockbuster thriller today, humans have not stopped writing and creating worlds in our heads. For generations, we have been engaged by worlds and conflicts that do not exist.  If you think about it, it is kind of weird that we enjoy stories. Why do we watch movies or read books? Why do we connect ourselves to these made up worlds? Why do we spend hard-earned time and money to consume these stories that will ultimately have no effect on our lives? At first glance, stories seem like a waste of time and money, but they would not exist if they did not benefit us greatly somehow. Whether we create stories to learn more about the world or just for pure escapism, the existence of them fulfills the innate human yearning to seek conflict and spectacle, in turn, highlighting the importance of stories to the human race. One of th...