The Perks of Being a Teenager

10-30-14

I’m walking in the hallway on the way to class and I step on a piece of gum. I try walking forward, but the gum still sticks to my foot, dragging outward. I pull back my foot, and the trail of gum follows. I’m stuck and completely unsure where to move my foot.

You might have thought I was talking about school’s gum problem, but I wasn’t. The gum is stands for something more. The gum is us teenagers. The teenage years are the one of the most difficult times because you’re still too young to do whatever you want to do. At the same time, you are too old to do all of the things that you used to. So that raises the question:  How much of a say do teenagers have in their own lives? I didn’t know the answer to this question when we talked about disobeying your parents and pursuing something greater. I found my answer during fourth period sitting in Spanish class.

The Quest of Questions

10-08-14

“The quality of a question is not judged by its complexity but by the complexity of thinking it provokes”

-Joseph O’Connor

The act of questioning will not always lead to the best answers, but these fragments will give us a more clear and open perspective about the world and who we truly are, unearth hidden emotions and feelings within ourselves, and leave behind imprints for us to look back and improve upon. This is why we were determined to search within ourselves to answer the our own crucial questions that we thought about while reading The Oedipus Cycle.