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Nina Yang

Ms. Guarino

W&CIII

04/28/2015

Free life

  “No school on Monday! Yeah!” This is the best news after prom that we deserve a day off since we sold more than 250 tickets for prom. Since I have to take SAT on this Saturday, I spent whole day doing SAT problems in the library, and I think it’s going to take over most of my time in the next few days.

  Why do we have to take different tests to evaluate ourselves and determine the futures of us? I always ask myself this question and get confused about life. Doing the same thing every day only for a good grade. That may not what I want my life to be exactly. After different arguing inside my mind, I realized that I’m just live in this kind of world. People compete with each other in a very direct and unscientific way. However, I cannot change it right now, but am I going to be like everyone else in the future? Graduate from college, find a job, married with someone I don’t even know right now, and live like that for the rest of my life? No, I don’t think so. At least, these are the least things I would like to do, and I really don’t want to be restricted by life or myself. I really like the movie that called “Life of Pie”, which is talking about a young man and his family was hit by a natural calamity during the voyage to Canada. At that time, he began his navigation with a tiger for a long period of time. He learned how to survive on the sea, get along well with the tiger, and most importantly, he rethinks about his life. I’m kind of jealous about his free life, and he was able to determine his life by himself. Therefore, my word on Monday is “gratis” in Polish, which means “free” in English. How do people understand the word “free” in their lives?

  When I was in Primary School, I thought being away from my parents was free at that time. Children always have an “independent” thought deep inside their mind. Not listen to their parents and do what they want to do. I was thinking like that at that time. However, my parents just couldn’t leave along for even one second, and I didn’t think I was “free” at all at that time. When I grew up a little, at the age of 13, I went to middle school. At that time, I thought if one day I could have a boyfriend with my mom’s permission, that would be free. However, my mom thought fall in love in an early age would definitely affect my grade, so I wasn’t free at that time either. Now, I don’t feel free because I have no choice but to go to school every day.

  People may not feel free at any time of their life. However, we don’t feel free only because the knowledge we have and the age we are limit our understanding of being free. Once we grow up and stand into a higher platform, we would not feel restricted anymore.