Never thought it was true...

That you can change the way you think…the way you live…the way you see the world…the way you perceive yourself and others. You are stuck but all you can do is wonder. You think about the past, you see the present in an entire different way, you envision the future as a more positive place. You come back…normal yet confused - questions racing throughout your mind. Seemed simple enough didn’t it? You realize that the mind is the most complex system that can think and visualize more than we are capable of realizing consciously. There is a fine line between reality and fantasy and the human mind separates them while combining them at the right moments in perfect harmony. Always think…we should think at a faster rate than we know.
Roberto L.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

At the end of the story, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, it is clearly stated that Alice's Adventure was completely a dream. During dreams we enter into a state of darkness, which exposes us to mystery and the unknown. Throughout Alice's whole journey there was a sense of not knowing who she was, what the characters meant while speaking, and why the animals were acting as they were. The archetype of the color black allows 'darkness' to be associated with it so the reader understands inside knowledge about what chaos was occurring to Alice, and the unconscious thoughts that were spreading throughout her dreams. Looking down the rabbit hole provided her with complete darkness and not being able to see what was below. She was entering into chaos of the unknown, little did she know. By the end of the story she leaves back through the darkness as she slowly awakes.

Breeana P.

Introductory to Girls

I ask them to take a girl
And try to understand her,
Explore her inside and out
just like a novel

or simply use their words to ask her how she feels

I say try to put her pieces together
like a complex puzzle,
or explain what she's like as if she were the prompt to a persuasive essay

I want them to give her their ears and their hearts
and teach her to trust them,
but all they want to do is judge and criticize her
like she was some $7 matinee movie.
They begin to tease her, because they know
deep down she's too good for them.

By Stephanie Rose