Theme for English AP
Miackie Domingo The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then it will be true. “Theme for English AP” … how can one say for sure? Every morning I’m greeted with another day, another challenge. Another slow bus ride to whisk me away from comfort, another trudge through hallways filled with hordes of stressed-out students; with only forty minute breaks in between the chaos for classes, the cycle continues. I’ve been doing this age-old routine since the second I stepped into this place— and it’s been the same deal since. So if I do in fact write a page about something tonight, and whatever is written comes true, then all I can bring myself to write is hope. Hope for change. A crack within this cycle of the standard. I want knowledge that I’ve never acknowledged. I want ideas from the ideal. I want to draw inspiration from what has been drawn out. I want the music of the moment to be ingrained into my brain like a song stuck on loop because I’m sick of being out of the loop on the things that matter to me. Calculations and chemicals have brought me only confusion and catastrophe, yet for some weird reason, I have a way with writing and rhetoric. Besides the visual arts, I find things like comprehending the context behind the content of a text and explaining the formulas behind fiction to be fascinating for me. I think I have a thing for those things about things no one else thinks about. Philosophical thoughts like these fill my head with curiosity, yet caution! Can the impossible be possible? Could I thrive by threading together a track record filled with not just numbers and notations But with endless impossibilities of an artist who understands the art of the humanities? Can the simple seed of the student that I am, grow into a big, strong tree? “To be or not to be?” My mind is reminded of Hamlet’s soliloquy When I feel as though I can’t be free From the expectations to get a perfect degree. But even after it all, I think my future will be lovely, If I work toward my hopes and dreams that I decree For the person that I claim to be. This is my page of English AP. |