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personal essay 4

warning: very serious themes ahead. How often do you cry? I cry about once a week on average. I don’t consider myself to be a particularly emotional person, but crying means a lot to me because it’s kind of the only way I deal with my emotions when I do get emotional. When I feel overwhelmed or mentally hurt, my natural instinct is to cry (which is probably the case for everyone). However, I don’t cry when there are people around me (at least, I try not to). This isn’t because I want to seem “tough” or anything, I don’t care about that at all. It’s because I don’t want to cause trouble to anybody. My mother has cried in front of me many times and every time was heartbreaking. I didn’t want to cause anyone to experience that feeling. When I do cry, it’s when I’m in the privacy of my room or otherwise alone.  It might seem like my parents are uncaring towards me based on the fact that I don’t seek their help, but it’s really the opposite. My parents really care about me and they try ...

my experience with being chronically online

  To what piece of technology would you write a “love letter”? I think this question is worded a bit strangely, but I assume it is asking for what technology I have been most positively affected by. My answer to that would be the internet. I know this answer sounds corny, but it’s true. The internet is the reason why I have not been completely isolated from human connection.  During high school, I had trouble finding friends. I didn’t have this problem in elementary school or middle school, but the only friend that went to high school with me transferred somewhere else by the end of subfreshman year. During freshman year, I had no friends, but I thought that was fine. I thought it wasn’t a big deal to have no friends and that it might be even a good thing because I get to focus on myself and have more time.  At the time, I had been using the internet often. Something you should know about me is that at the time (and even now) I had a strong interest in geometry dash, spec...