Hello everyone! It sure has been a while...
Wow, I've conquered junior year (in a manner of speaking :P), and am on my way to many endings and even more beginnings.
In the process of attempting to begin my common app essay early, I've stumbled on the idea of defining myself as an individual in a few words. I really want, like everyone else, to capture myself in those 650 words, to weave myself into the page so anyone reading will emerge with a true understanding of me.
But somehow, I feel that can't be possible. Maybe it's because my writing capabilities only stretch so far, or because I have not yet cemented my identity, but I hope it's that a person contains too many folds and facets to capture in a few words.
The entire premise of a common app essay must be flawed because people cannot be reduced to a few scribbles on a page. Even the best character you've read or written, the most emotion you've poured out onto the page, will not capture the entirety of you because there is, and always will be more.
There's always that quiet sensitivity behind the confident exterior, the silent tears you shed while watching a movie, that impossible understanding you have with the squirrel that lives in your front yard-you're bold but cautious- how is that possible? Only you can feel it- you're compassionate but convicted, you like folk music for how it makes you think but rock for how it makes you feel, there's just so much packed inside of you like people on a Mumbai bus, love and fear and opinions and thought, always thinking always evolving, dynamic and charismatic and filled with infinite potential, beautiful beyond measure.
We have more packed inside of each single one of us than the universe has inside it- our imaginations remain forever unbounded by the constraints of the world. I am limitless.
Now how can I put all of that in 650 words? :)
