Free Write: WHY ME?

Recently, my personality has been assulted by rumors and false judgement from people who dont even know me, havent even seen me in person. I just wanted to say thank you for making me feel my size. People who you ain't even expect to do certain things suprise you. I have been taken advantage of. My niceness has been slaughtered to the extreme. My friendly style has been raped and abused. You expect me to still contain my nature and be nice and friendly? How can one be so kind and caring after being trappled on. Not just through school friends but through friends that you consider family. Stuff like that hurts and its hard to get over it and move one like nothing has happened. Is this what you recieve for trying to make new friends trying to be what you said you'd be. I really want to cry,but the person that Im striving to be is preventing me from doing that. I HAVE to be strong and HAVE to be respectable and be the adult cause some has to be. But it still hurts. Why me?

GRAFFITI VS. SOCIETY

What do you see when you see these three pictures? Whats the first thing that comes to your mind?Do the words ghetto or dirty come to mind? How bout places like New York or Philadelphia or DC? None of these come to my mind!!! I think that this is ART!!! ART as in high art. To me these are the pieces that should be auctioned off to the rich people. I take this to be high art becuase it takes so much to make art called graffiti. To cover a complete wall of paint and ideas is amazing to me.
Graffiti is known to society as the art of the Hip Hop world. As far as I know, it statred in the Bronx of New York and spreaded to rural places

such as Washington DC, other spots in New York, Philadelphia, LA and many more other places. THIS TYPE OF ART SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED. When I see murals such as these it amazes me at how detailed or not detailed it is also how creative and colorful they are.

To me pictures like these make the city what it is. This makes my home, home. It gives me a sense of comfort to see these on random walls. It saddens me when people relate to them as trash or something that wosrens the city and promote viloence.

Graffiti, like other pieces of art, are expressions made through people. Who are we to call someones art work "trash"? To see things like

this to me is an inspiration that "nothing can stop me." They wrote and drew on walls dispite what people thought of them or their art work, so I can do the same. Strive for my goals no matter what people may say is not capable for me to achieve or may say that I am not capable to achieve becuase of who I am. This type of art work encourages me to live in a "NO LIMITS" world to do what ever i want to do and even though it may not be pleasing to other people it please me.