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Days become reflections, facing each 24-hour period until you can’t see the end of the rectangular maze, because it is pure, unhinged infinity staring you in the dead eyes. Your sticks move beneath you, bending at the branch; the engine inflates and compresses, forcing hydraulics into your skin sack,  pumping you up and down like a balloon. You hunch, twist, shout—but the one thing you have left to your control, your mind, is stagnant.

Life rolls on. You are but a toiler, your task being to continue as light stretches its same path again and again. You mustn’t faulter, you mustn’t stop: the expectations, in their great power, press into your pores, commanding your unable body to preform. With each discrepancy the pressure builds, and you wade into it faster, not by your own choice, but by some boiling instinct within you that cannot survive without it.

The strings apon your hand clack, the tendons within your back tremble and slump.  You are embraced by black, an embrace so warm it magnifies your discomfort. There is a trapped luminescence hanging over the plateau. It slices through the embrace, allowing the connection between your hands and eyes to strengthen.

It incourages you. You muse to yourself: the expections, though mighty, have no power over you; who are they to command you? Mere ghosts that you have convinced yourself of reality. So, exorcise them! And finally, sleep.

They have come for you. They are here for you. Wolves in the night, they race. The engine pumps. Fingers flash, eyes dash, bones stiffen! So what can you do but run, because the time is on your back and it becomes heavy as it thins and stagnancy imprisons you to watch with burning eyes as everything tumbles to the bottom of a hill you have built up for a year out of tears and sweat and unhappiness all for nothing and it will crumble beneath your feet in the moonlight if you dare to stop don’t you dare stop. 

Your sagging eyelids raise to find your lamp on your desk, still glowing in the deepening night. You sigh and continue your work.

 

Blog Post 15

Political parties shouldn’t exist.

A little preface to explain some of my reasoning: One day I was doing my homework and because I get horrifically off track sometimes, I caught myself wondering what political party my dad was. So I asked him: “Dad, you lean more towards the left, right?” And to that he responded quite firmly, “No, I am a moderate. Labels are stupid. It shouldn’t matter what you consider your beliefs to fall under.” Then he went on a tangent about the irony of the United States having the word “united” in the name because there are so many political parties now that people felt the need to form because we thrive off of labeling things.

And he has a point. In hindsight, if we— politicians, voters— spent a fraction of the time we spend focused on the policies and beliefs of individual parties, on our ACTUAL beliefs and ideas, maybe, just maybe, something in this crumbling hell hole we call a society could get improved—maybe even solved. What a concept.

An example as to why political parties are bad: Trump is a republican. Because he’s a republican, all members of congress who are also republican feel the need to stay in agreement with each other, and with Trump. Right now, congress is nearly split down the middle in terms of number of members from each major political party. But it’s Republican majority nonetheless. So essentially congress is gridlocked. For four years, nothing major is getting done because no one can agree with each other and even though some republicans have the same beliefs as democrats and vice versa, they still tend to follow the beliefs of their party, for their party’s benefit. That republican may have a point, but I can’t agree with him because he’s a dreaded republican. It’s foolish and ridiculous. Last time I checked, we are all American for Gods sake.

Nicole Cyr

Cole Paulin
Lauren Durkee
AP Language and Composition
20 March 2019
Working out is the perfect remedy for any negative mood. Going to the gym can translate anger to power, insecurities to confidence, and defeat to determination.
On top of granting a sweet pump, working out chemically improves peoples’ mood by pumping endorphins through their body. In an elementary sense, Endorphins are hormones that make the body feel better. The daily defeats that everybody goes through may knock somebody down a few pegs, but working out brings them back to the top. Many people have to find their true passion to boost their happiness, but the problem lies in the select people who have yet to find the thing or action that never fails to bring joy. For some people, their “natural high” cannot always be attained due to life restrictions. Working out is something that anybody can do anytime and anywhere. Any time that someone is feeling blue or angry, they should strongly consider getting a natural high through the iron they could be curling to their neck or pressing from their chest. A negative mood can always be suppressed through the induction of powerful endorphins.
Different from endorphins, working out induces a feeling of personal satisfaction that is often rare to find. Every second that someone is in the gym, their body is getting stronger, faster, and more volatile. Anybody can work for whatever body type they are looking for. Sculpting the body into whatever somebody wants is an amazing feeling. So amazing that it turn bad days into good days and good days into amazing days. When someone is feeling down on themselves, going to the gym doesn’t just mentally build them back up, they are physically building themselves up. The combination of the two are a bonafide method of reducing negative attitudes.
Don’t try and sleep off or brush away a negative attitude. Attack those impurities by attacking the weight room. The downward force on the barbell will never equate to the weight of the malignant thoughts and toxins leaving your body.

In the fast paced society we live in, we tend to dwell on the fact that we are sleepy, fatigued, dirty, uncomfortable, and aching after a day of working, learning, exercising, eating, and socializing.  But maybe our long days are not that tiring.  Maybe we are all just dehydrated because us busy people are not slowing down to drink some fresh H2O.  

It is suggested that the average person drinks sixty-four ounces of pure water per day, but the average American, each day, is only drinking half of the suggested amount.  

The public needs to be more educated on the benefits of drinking water because water lubricates the joints, forms saliva and mucus, delivers oxygen throughout the body, boosts skin health, cushions the brain, spinal cord, and other sensitive tissues, regulates body temperature, provides the digestive system what it needs in order to work, flushes body waste, maintains blood pressure, allows airways to work, makes minerals and nutrients accessible, improves performance, triggers weights loss, and so much more!

The public also needs to be informed that while nearly seventy percent of Earth is covered by water, only two and a half percent of the water is fresh.  Only about one percent of the fresh water is easily accessible and drinkable as most of the fresh water is trapped in glaciers and snowfields.  Therefore, with such a small amount of drinkable water, crucial to the the survival of all humans, it is important that we do not pollute the water and atmosphere, causing us to lose the fresh water that is available to us.

– Isabella Dube