We are all Princess
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As many young girls, I have memories of playing dress up with princess dresses and plastic high heels, while accessorising with old family pearl necklaces. We know all the Disney classics: Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, Ariel and falling in love with the new princesses of Merida, Rapunzel, Tiana, Elsa and Anna. Some people say that we teach our kids the false reality of princesses. The reality is that the newer princesses show a great example for girls.
To be a princess is to be brave, confident, kind, generous, and compassionate. These are all great personality traits to be teaching young girls. Showing that princesses aren’t always a fairy tale. A princess is a responsible character; who carries with her the sweet persona toward others even the worst of her situations and encounters. Girls--becoming your own form of a princess can be whatever you make of it. Good friends can all be princesses together when we are loyal and trustworthy. We gain the characteristics of a princess when we stand up for what is right. We can all be princesses in our own castles. We just have to act like a real princesses acts.
To be a princess is to be brave, confident, kind, generous, and compassionate. These are all great personality traits to be teaching young girls. Showing that princesses aren’t always a fairy tale. A princess is a responsible character; who carries with her the sweet persona toward others even the worst of her situations and encounters. Girls--becoming your own form of a princess can be whatever you make of it. Good friends can all be princesses together when we are loyal and trustworthy. We gain the characteristics of a princess when we stand up for what is right. We can all be princesses in our own castles. We just have to act like a real princesses acts.
Is Writing like Driving?
My writing may start out very similar to this quote by E.L. Doctorow “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” Meaning that I only know as much as my next sentence maybe, and an overall plan for what you want to write about, but I don’t know exactly how I’m going to put it. Writing for my own personal journal is easier than writing for school. When I write about stuff I know, it comes out easy, like a driving route I would take every day. But, when I’m writing papers for school and it feels like I’m in a huge white out winter storm. I know the bits and parts of what I’m going to write, but linking the information effectively, is the part that is like not being able to see landmarks that let you know where to turn at. I write just as I would be talking about it to someone, face-to-face, then go back to make sure things make sense. Sometimes, you need to remember it’s okay not to know exactly what you want to write about. Just start writing, like the long summer road trips you would take with your family.
Homework? Oh yea… That
Hey, look! Your best friend sends you a new SnapChat photo of their dog being cute, like always. Then it becomes a 20 minutes long photo conversation of how their day was. Then she says to check out what she just posted on Facebook and it is a link to behind the scenes of the new movie that you two are going to see when it comes out. As you sit there sending video links back and forth, you see a stack of clothes that could be put away. When you are in the middle of cleaning your room you find that old notebook from middle school with all the doodles that kept you entertain during all those long, boring grammar lectures. When you are finished putting that pile away, you check your computer to see if there is anything on Facebook that catches your eye. Then your friend posts about an English paper that’s due tomorrow. First you want to watch this other video you found. Finally you bring up a new tab and log into GoogleDoc and bring up a new document. You sit there to write the paper up but when you go to print it off, you are out of ink, guess you will have to print it at school tomorrow. Procrastination. Its what most teenagers are pro at. Delaying the list of things that they know they have to do.