"Know Thyself"

           A saxophone-playing rubber duck. A sticky chocolate bar. A pencil and a pen cross. A freakishly-small Snow White. All haphazardly Scotch-taped to a Quaker Chewy Bar box. Apparently, this is me.

            I don’t really know what I’m doing; I haven’t since I got this assignment last Thursday: “Describe yourself using children’s blocks or material.” Glancing around my dorm room, I realize that all of my cool stuff is at home. Great.

My Beautiful Creation

But I want a good grade in the class, so I shove aside my regrets. Where do I start? I need a base. I plunk an empty snack box on my desk. Next, Snow White catches my attention. I tape her down as she smirks at me. “What are you doing?” she seems to ask.

            “Shut up.  Just stay there, will you?” I add another strip of tape to her skirt.  A blue paper blob, a Chapstick, a book-wielding Christopher Robin, a Crayola pencil, and a Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival duck are the next victims. In a burst of desperation, I add the Chinese bracelet, the “magnifying glass,” the chocolate, and the hair-clip, praying that my model will stay together. I make up the items’ significance as I go to class.

            So what does this say about me? Perhaps I need to rediscover myself or take up modern art. Either way, I’ve found that I should just enjoy being myself and not take life too seriously. And now if you’ll excuse me, I need to buy more Scotch tape.     

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