Essays: Reality 63 Articles

by Jason Forbis

Some have called me cynical in my outlook on life and the people in it. I however, have the opinion that it is not cynicism but a more practical approach to the World at large. I offer these essays as proof of this posi...read more

by NC Deanna

How do we become so wrapped up in self? When does it start, and once it does, can we change? I need this, I want that, I deserve this, I did this for them, I hate, I love I'm hurt. I'm in charge, I am sick. "I" ...read more

by Regine Riviere

What is it about pain?- 10/5/2006 I was just watching Grey's Anatomy and one of the plot lines was about a little girl who had bruises and huge cuts all over her body. At first they suspected that her foster parents we...read more

by Dani Lew

I'm so used to everyone saying I have a baby face and that I don't look my age. I really hate that. But sometimes I look in the mirror and I don't even look like me. I look older and it scares me. It's like a blast of real...read more

by Erin Mahoney

Recently a friend asked me if it bothers me when strangers ask me about my physical situation. Much like with family and friends, I would actually prefer people to ask me directly rather than make assumptions. It does, how...read more

by Jose Barajas

Unfinished and Untitled You know it's funny how a person can act so happy on the outside but deep down inside they are just all alone and almost dead. I hate to use the word did but that's just the plain truth. How at s...read more

by Michelle Jones

Why do so many of us avoid reality? How do we know the difference between reality and fantasy, when we never want to face reality and rather live in a world of fantasy. When is that point in your lives when the two seem to...read more

by DJ Triplett

I still recall the evening I met them. Well, I only met two of them that evening, I met the other six the following week. They taught me a great deal, and solidified my belief that reality truly is in the eyes of the beh...read more

by Anthony E Powell

I find myself an enemy to reality. Sometimes I just want to grab reality by the throat and squeeze until there's no more reality. I escape reality as much as possible. I create my own world free from racial tension, violen...read more

by Natalia Dagenhart

Dreams and Reality People in the whole world consider life in the United States of America as heaven. They watch TV shows about it and believe that it's country of their dreams. Many of them think about moving the...read more

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by Joe Falls

Opinion is a paradox. Just the other day, I was driving home respecting the government mandated limit of speed, when a hotshot in an SUV, resembling more of a tank than a car, swerves and zooms in front of me, promptly...read more

by Jessica Roberts

It finally hit me today; the truth I've always known in my head but never in my heart. Everyone is in our lives for a reason. I've always known that it wasn't people that made happiness, it was tiny moments for us to ca...read more

by DesiMuslimah

In our everyday society, we come across different structural as well as imbalanced portraits of our modern eras, combined with the gesture of mankind that has established a solid yet controversial foundation in human times...read more

by Jenny Jimenez

Healing a Wounded Spirit It truly is a wonder, that a show which focuses on the lives of different individuals, as they live inside a house surrounded by hidden cameras and no means of communication from its outside wa...read more

by Allen Norde

Ever since I was a child I was always in awe about the universe/environment, and the world I found myself living in. What always perplexed me was the insistent perception that everything, I mean any thing, could be contr...read more

by Mandy Tillotson

"Leave it to Beaver" vs. "Roseanne" The woman of today is quite the striking contrast to the woman of yesterday. She no longer has a role defined by her gender. She can stay home with her children, run a corporate ...read more

by Emily West

The Other Place It was -2 F today, and I went down to the mall and walked around a little; and as I did so, walking easily around the mall in five-minute circles, I wondered whether there were other people who had "oth...read more

by Fida Abbott

Once, there was a man who asked GOD for a flower and a butterfly. But God gave him a cactus and a caterpillar. He was sad, he didn't understand why his request was mistaken, Then he thought: Oh well, GOD has to many peopl...read more

by Robbie Cosslett

The Secret Lives of Students We are a cult, an elite minority, controlling societies and the people who govern them. We are suave, majestic, our presence demanding respect. We are investors, entrepreneurs, wi...read more

by Peggy Lindgren

I was 45 years old, and suddenly, I no longer had a parent. Dad died five years ago, following a long and devastating illness; Alzheimer's disease. A great loss indeed, yet I still had mom. She had been ill for many mon...read more