Her heart is pounding faster and faster. Her knees are
buckling and all possibilities of nervous thoughts are rushing through her head
as if they are pressing for explosion. The silence of the waiting audience thickens
as the bubbly announcer comes on stage to introduce the next act. Not knowing
whether to run away in fear or jump for joy, the quivering vocalist tries to
center her corrupt thoughts as the stage manager yells “ten seconds till
curtain!” ever so urgently. Every member of the band is settled in position
with big bright smiles of excitement glowing on their faces from ear to ear. The
never-ending soft red velvet curtain slides back as her heart is now becoming like
a bunny rabbit that has just received a lifetime supply of a veggie cuisine. The
smallest speck of light begins at the base of stage. The glow spreads over her
feet, slithering and snaking up the leg of her pants as if trying to attack. Her
eyes clinch tight as she hopes that this is the moment where she and the gymnast
in her heart can disappear to the sandy dunes of paradise in the farthest land
away from this bloodcurdling stage. The glow continues to ascend and then suddenly
her ear picks up a sound; a pleasant sound. A distant clap in the hindmost section
of the auditorium slowly crescendos and spreads like wildfire to the front,
making the singer feel welcomed. An exhale is released, and the drumsticks
strike together beginning the first song of a great concert.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Cards Of Darkness
Three of my classmates and I are adventurers. We love to travel and and see how natives live in here land. With this passion of ours, we decided to take a year long trip through the jungle. We began our expedition with a month's worth of resources and plenty of bullets. We figured that if the Natives were nice they would help us to survive and if not, well let's say we would have plenty of motivation.
As we reached the jungle it was time to make a decision. Were we gonna go in being nice or were we gonna go in guns blazing? Well seeing that we didn't want to sacrifice resources we decided to keep the guns close. Knowing that the Natives would be on edge after this, we decided to not be violent and press them for resources. In the beginning the weather was pretty good so all resources were safe and there was no need to really interact with the natives.
Once the first month was finished we decided to check up on our relationship with the Natives. unfortunately they didn't like us that much. what were we to do? do we win them over with resources? Do we fight fire with fire since they are being quite violent to us? We talked about it and checked our circumstances. We figured that the natives had no real reason to be mad at us. We were only kept our guns near us in the beginning because this is a new place that we aren't used to. we wanted to protect ourselves not kill them off. Also we realized that if we were gonna survive 11 more months we can't just be handing our resources all willy nilly. we must do whats best for us to survive in this jungle. So after this reflection we decided to use our guns to our advantage which would cause us to not sacrifice any resources.
As more months passed, more violence seemed to occur. We needed resources to carry us through so since the Natives weren't quite cooperating, my classmates and i had to use the motivation that I spoke about earlier. All was well until the weather took a toll on the land. it wasn't the huge tsunami so not a lot of damage was done. With this situation we figured since the natives are used to weather like this they can figure out how to survive and we will only have to sacrifice our resources for ourselves. I guess the natives thought this was reasonable because they seemed to like us a little better.
So here we were. Here at our last month in the jungle. The natives were pretty neutral with us and the weather hadn't effected us. With these good emotions flying around there aaas no need to be violent to we were preserving our resources pretty well. But not receiving the tsunami yet caused us to have to make our decisions carefully. we didn't want to lose everything we had because our outcome depended mainly on if we would have good or treacherous weather. thankfully in the ends we were able to end our journey in the jungle with the bright sunshine above us and all 400% surplus on resources fro when we started. Our journey in the jungle surely taught me and my classmates is not nearly as easy as they make it seem in the books.
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