Sometimes I wonder if "writer's" block is common in a young mind or even scattered thoughts of a billion ideas. In Advanced Placement English every senior has to write a graduation speech as well as come up with a poem that resembles ourselves.
With the graduation speech, writer's block occurs to the point where my essay is scattered all over the place and I do not even know what is my main idea of the speech. With the creative poem resemblance, there are so many poems and song lyrics, an abundance of options. I once read a quote we are the books, the lyrics, the experiences we go through. There is a little part of us in every literature and art we encounter, whether directly or indirectly implied.
This graduation speech reflects the mind of the writer-scattered and messy; but luckily it is only a draft that needs much needed improvement.
“There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist”― Salman Rushdie. Here in the present, we are the fighters and the survivors; the perseveres and history changers; dreamers and goal pursuers. In the present potential is the first step of ambition. “Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more”-Oscar Wilde. One’s potential is more valuable than an individual realizes. Your potential is more significant than you think it is. No one can steal your potential; for your potential in the present determines your future and leaving an imprint of a legacy on your past.
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