It felt as if someone pressed the mute button on my senses. The harmonies of my surroundings were sucked out of my ears. The vivid and colorful world became dim and gloomy. The candied life that I thought existed melted away and left a barren vacuum.
These past few weeks, I hadn’t make a single effort to figure out what was wrong, I was self-absorbed, selfish, narrow-minded. …show more content…
I joined more extracurriculars, not because I needed them for college apps, but because I wanted to start making a real change in the community. To encourage others to do the same, I became the president of National Honor Society by providing different volunteer opportunities to different people. Finding out my best friend was suffering from leukemia transformed me from an oblivious caterpillar into an attentive butterfly. It made me stronger morally, and developed in me an awareness of others’ situations. Most importantly, it led me to determine how I want to make a change in the world: by providing proper healthcare, provide clean water, and reduce poverty in impoverished