Changed

Changed

Flash fiction

The years have changed you. You know they have. Your smiles aren't as bright. Your laughter is shorter and not as loud as it once was. Your eyes, once bright with hopes of the future, and now they are aged past their years. They have seen more than they need to. The poison of the world, and the shadows of death. They have seen the mistakes you made, and it sees were things could have been better. You wish you had known then.

Artist statement

I choose the image of me, head down and eyes closed, to show remorse, sorrow, and hopelessness. I drew it in pen to show how i believed i looked. I dont show emotion well on camera, so i drew it out on paper. I wanted to convey how it feels to have nothing left. To be alone. I choose my flash fiction to express the feelings of having changed. The feeling of knowing that you have changed beyond recognition, even if it’s not just physically. To show the emotion of loss, pain, and regret.

Art thing

People seem to believe that a person’s personality is unchanging. Unwavering and solid. That once you are a certain way that's how you'll always be. Like with the Invisibilia Podcast, “The personality myth’, The woman thought that since Dan had been that way all those years ago, he was still a violent and dangerous man, that he still wanted to hurt people and to be evil. That a person's’ personality is permanent, and unchanging no matter the amount of time that has passed, but people change due to circumstances if you ask me. People will change if you want them to or not if they go through something that was too difficult for the old them to handle.

The soldier vs scout Ted Talk  says, "that everyone has a solider or a scout mindset.  The soldier mindset of i must be right no matter what, to prove you are right even if you aren't. Or the scout mindset that you need to see both sides and to find all the facts before choosing. It’s more objective point of view on the situation."  It’s been said that you have either or, and no chance of being in between. That your personality doesn’t change unless you want it to and you work on for years. I don't think that's exactly true.

Personality changes with time, and situation. Yes there are key points on what makes a person, such as creativity, ability, and how much you care.. But things such as how strong they are, their view on life, their hopefulness. Those things change to the situation. How someone can go from being on top of the world to rock bottom, it changes how a person is and how their personality is. I learned so much about this in class, but also in life. In just the four years i've been here in this school i have changed. I used to be a hyperactive kid that didn't really care about anything school related and just wanted to have fun and honestly i was selfish too. Now in my senior year, i'm focus, caring, worried, stressed and i know that life is going to be hard and that there isn't time for fun anymore. That the world will chew you up and spit you out. That yes, it may seem that you don't change, and that's only until you are put into a situation that requires you to change, or to not continue. So, yes, personality changes, even though many people say it doenst. It just takes the right situations.