Since you're pretty much the only one reading this, I thought I might as well use this as a sort of secret little progress log for English. A lot of the times, I know you just want to look at the old English essays you wrote (and then scoff that you used to be so proud of them), so here it is!
Reasons I'm proud of this essay: the panda and light bulb metaphor. #deep =))
Inspired Reflection
Did you know pandas can’t digest
bamboo? Their short digestive tracts are only meant to digest meat.
Consequently, pandas suffer from constant indigestion coupled with acute energy
deficiency: they only garner a dismal amount of 20 percent energy from their
diet. Yet against all odds, pandas still
choose to eat bamboos. Why? Purely because they love them. Pandas are the anomalies of evolution, or as
Emily Dickinson’s poem “Much madness is divinest sense” would describe them, “demurrers”
of “the majority”.
Most
humans are unlike pandas in that way; we do not dare stand up against the
prevailing majority, for we fear being “handled with a chain”’. I used to fall victim to this mindset,
especially while stressing over colleges. Oh, she’s learning the piano? Okay,
I’ll do that. Oh, he’s out doing community service? Guess I’ll sign up too. Gradually,
my being became synonymous with a light bulb – though I shined, my light would
be negated by others’. Fed up and tired, I took up art, despite knowing this
has no direct correlation to my desired careers. This “madness” of a decision turned out to be
the “divinest sense”. I might have “chained” my chances of getting accepted
away because I strayed from the route others are taking, but so what? A
flickering light bulb is always more easily noticed in a row of brightly lit ones.
People
don’t step up for fear of being “handled with a chain". Yet like the pandas, although
they are “chained” to indigestion, the simple act of eating their favorite food
helps ensure their survival, since bamboo is easier to find in their habitat
than prey. So if a panda isn't afraid of a meager chain, should you be? The sure
answer is no, so stand up, because the chain you are so afraid of will become the greatest weapon
you have ever had.
Iunno man I thought this was kinda cute. What do you think future Anh?
Iunno man I thought this was kinda cute. What do you think future Anh?
