Toward a Life in Balance
Write an essay that mixes narrative and analysis to illuminate what is lost, and what can be reclaimed, when life is out of balance.
Vroom Vroom
By Madeleine
This was when I learnt that though we are all competing in the same race, some of us drove on bumpy roads, some cars with more mileage than others, some leaking oil. I learnt that it was much lonelier in my new car, than passenger in his shitmobile.
Enough #2
By Nhi Nguyen
The ghost of that girl is still with me sometimes. She’s the flicker of panic I feel when I get a grade that’s less than an A. She’s the voice that whispers ‘unproductive’ when I spend an afternoon reading a novel just for me. The scars from the system don’t disappear.