Toward a Life in Balance
Write an essay that balances narrative and analysis to illuminate what is lost 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.