I See A World

     Hi all! Welcome to my blog, I See a World. First and foremost, I wanted to talk about how I came up with the idea for this blog name. Every year at my (private) grade school, starting in fourth grade, all of the students would have to participate in a poetry contest. To be honest, I hated it. I hate writing, I hate speaking, I hate expressing myself through words. Especially when those words need to include alliterations, onomatopoeias, and so on and so forth. Despite this, I was still a perfectionist and was going to try my hardest to get into the book of poems. And I did. Each year. But eighth grade was different. It was fall of 2017. The Las Vegas shooting occurred that week. While I felt that writing a poem about the weather or my dog would be easy, it would also be using my privilege to my benefit and avoiding what wasn't directly affecting me. So I didn't write a poem on the weather or my dog, but rather about every political issue that could possibly come to m...