My Best
When I'm asked, "When are you at your best?”, I can give two completely different, but completely viable and true answers. I am at my best either when I’m completely alone or when I’m in a group at the center of attention. When I’m completely alone, I’m at my best academically. I love being in control of situations. What I learn and the pace at which I acquire that knowledge is paramount to my learning, and what better way is there to assure my needs are met than by having full agency over those variables? When I’m by myself and learning I feel (even more than usual)free. I lose all of the pretenses of looking foolish in a group, not living up to the astronomically high standard I hold myself to, or really appeasing anyone other than myself. This sense of freedom allows me to continue to be inquisitive and curious about anything and everything, feeding my mind, and in turn feeding my soul. Being alone also allows me to be instantaneous. My mind moves at a mile a millisec...