THE RUN The day began like any other Monday. My alarm sounded with the piercing buzz sharply at 5:00 a.m. I rolled out of my tiny bed onto the cold hard wood floor and proceeded to venture into the newly colored, pastel green ... itself on my socks over the weekend when I washed my cloths and put on a pair of socks that fit just in between the way I liked them to. Looking at the clock I discovered it was now almost 5:30 a.m. and I had not yet left my house. I quietly scrambled through the house, so I did not wake up the rest of my family, as I looked ... ...

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... forever. Otherwise, humans live in choice, and will analyze the pros and cons. We choose the way to compromise the expectation from other people. For example, we will set an alarm clock to get up in the morning, because we have to work to pay off the mortgage. If we say "no" in this case, we will face rejected by others. Rejected ... ...

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... . Sighing a sigh filled with anxiousness, I focused my attention back to the task at hand. Keys clacked and thoughts escaped into a meaningless menagerie of words, unstructured and confusing. Glancing at the clock heightened the pressure I put upon myself, and dread started to fill me up like a balloon. In mere hours the bin collecting papers should be filled with essays, including mine: operative ... yet again and took my fury out on the keyboard. Letters became words, words became sentences, and sentences became paragraphs. In turn those paragraphs molded my essay just as the alarm, to...

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