College Essay # 124 - Wake Forest

124. What outrages you? (Wake Forest)

Humans, including me, can endure only so much. I like experiencing different kinds of things and I always try for the new. But there are just somethings in the world that I just can't bare, which pick at my nerves like crows feeding, and sometimes ... I just want to get the hell away from everything.

I feel outraged when people tell me to spotting cracking my knuckles after I've cracked them. There's no point in telling me to stop after I've already done something. If I haven't listened to you once, I'm probably not going to listen to you again.

I feel outraged when people tell me that they know me better than I know myself. Have you lived my life for the 16 years 8 months and 4 days that I have?

I feel outraged when I take personality tests which tell me that I'm a push over and that I should take more control of my life. I feel outraged when I say its a load of "bullshit" but I end up thinking that it's true anyways.

I feel outraged when someone comes up to your group of friends and starts talking about themselves and how their day went as if we asked her.

I feel outraged when people stand at the top of the stairs having a conversation including ten people and blocks more than half of the passage to go either up or down the stairs. Seriously, get a room, and a life.

I feel outraged when people interrupt me while I'm doing my work and I don't know how to politely tell them to "shut up."

I feel outraged when a student in AP Chemistry asks for extra credit when they already got a 92% on their test. Hello?!?! Do you not see that there are other people struggling to even get half your grade. You don't have to rub it in my face.

I feel outraged when people come in my room while I'm sleeping and say "Sorry, I didn't know you were sleeping" and then enter the room again. Did you not see my lying there, trying to get a goodnight's sleep, without you barging in my room every 5 minutes?

I feel outraged when I feel like I've lost something, then go look for it to find out that it was 10 ft from where I was looking.

I feel outraged when my parents tell me that I need to eat the "dorm food otherwise I'm going to get sick" (mom), without realizing that I eventually get sick because of the food anyways.

I feel outraged when teachers say they understand that we have a lot of work and then pile on an essay and a test one to 2 tests and a quiz.

I feel outraged when a teacher just mumbles some really important fact about their class and when you ask them what they said, he or she would answer "Weren't you paying attention?" and then give me a 3 for effort grade.

I feel outraged when people insult me about my pimples and then ask me whether I feel offended or not. Honestly, I really don't care about what you think about me.

Though this whole thing probably sounds pessimisstic and shows that I'm a person who hates life and all the "fruitfulness" that comes with it, I feel outraged when someone says "When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade" ... what if I want to have a lemon fight? Just stop telling me how to live my life. I'm the conductor of my own train.