Leading My Lost Soul

Coronavirus. Coronavirus. Coronavirus.  That's literally all I see and hear. On the news, on the phone, through texts, on facebook, email, everywhere. What even are you EXACTLY. Like what the heck. Can you please go away. Literally ruining so many lives. What a way to start our year.  I don’t know precisely how I feel. Does that make sense? One day I am ok, the next I am losing my absolute mind, then I’m happy, then I’m upset. I am completely out of my “usual routine.” My anxiety is through the ceiling, I will admit that. We are losing jobs, people, income, social life, hope, and so much more. . . A lot of those things listed really hurt. If I think about it, I honestly don’t even know if I have hope right now. Wait. . . I actually do. A little.  I think I have hope in humanity right now, because I have seen how people are concerned for one another, but at the same time they aren’t. I guess I am 50/50. I am nor here, nor there, nor anywhere. Get it? I feel that tr...

I say this loud and proud! I am looking forward to this assignment! I strongly believe this assignment will be great for all of us. I am looking forward to having that feeling of “freedom,” by this I mean in writing exactly what I want, or in this case we want. I don’t see any limit to my words or my emotions. We will be able to put it all out there. Right? Is it weird that I’m excited simply because I have an idea of certain pictures I would like to be using. If I chose the topic I think I have set my mind on, then this essay will be extremely personal to me because I lived through it, and it haunts me to this day.  Getting personal is. . . personal. When it comes to getting personal, one can decide with who, when , and where they feel comfortable. I am ready to share a bit of my personal life with you, so let's get comfortable.  My 1st possible topic  One of my top ideas for this assignment regards the topic of  Immigration. What would even be the correct qu...

I must admit I had never read this article; but now that I have, I wish I would have even given it a glance before I started my college journey. Even though I hadn’t read " Secrets of the Most Successful College Students " by Annie Murphy Paul, I must admit that there is some advice I have taken, and some I have failed to. One example being the advice of ' Ask Big Questions’. That is one I have struggled with for sure. I have always been the one too nervous to ask. Even when it came to asking simple questions, I didn’t want to be pointed out, and I was scared for my voice to be heard. (literally) I wish I would have listened to this since I started college and maybe today I wouldn’t be standing as I was years ago.  I honestly don’t think I had read any article that specifically gave me advice for College. At least not that I can remember. At this point in my life, 2 1/2 years in community college, plus now being in my second semester of my first year at a University. I...

I am from strength  Blood, Sweat, and Tears  I am from suffering Emotionally, Mentally, and Physically  I am from determination  A Better life, job, people, and self I am from happiness  Reunions, Laughter, and Hugs  I am from my ancestors  Their past, present, and future  I am from life  Their love, decisions, and mistakes  I am from the house in Sherman Heights  I am from the house in Logan Heights  I am from the house nowhere near  I am from places all around the world  I am from the flag that’s green, white, and red  I am from the flag that’s red, white, and blue I am from, not just these two  I am from the City of Mountains  I am from my botas vaqueras  I am from the city and from el Rancho  I am from running barefoot through the streets  I am from a place we stay safe from hurricanes  I am from never ending sleepless nig...

My name is Leslie, of that, I can almost be sure. My birth certificate indicates my birth back to the date of July 1997. If I was born in 1997, why have I lived my life feeling as if I wasn’t, why am I not breathing?  The greatest part of me has always been missing. That I have always been certain of. It’s extremely difficult to find the right words to describe what my family means to me. They are everything, my family is the only thing that gives me life. You would look at me, and think I have it all. However, my family is the one exception, they are what I have never been able to keep. In my twenty-two years of life, I have only experienced a limited amount of happiness. I swear. To me, happiness comes and goes. It all begins when I finally get to be with my family. Happiness becomes me because I get to see them face to face, I get to hug them, I finally get to feel loved, I finally feel like I’m breathing. The oxygen I need on a daily basis finally feels like it’s doing its...