Joey Abely

What is Going on in There?

While writing my essay many things popped into my head. The first thing that came into my mind about a millisecond after I started drawing was, “how is this relevant to my college English class?”. I proceeded to judge my professors’ instructions, but I pushed on thinking the whole time about how qualified he is and that he couldn’t be making us do this if it wasn’t going to benefit us in any way. This distracted me most of the time but still I was like a zombie mindlessly doing this assignment while my mind wandered from thought to thought. Every now and then I would snap out of my state and come to and look over at the persons drawing next to me and realize, “Wow mine sucks compared to theirs”; but then again, I kept working through it. After I got my finished product I was not pleased by myself or my artistic abilities. But then as I started to look more deeply it hit me, if I paid attention to more of the details rather than finishing the assignment then it would have come out better. This immediately drew my attention to a previous assignment I had in my 8th grade physics class. We were instructed to make trebuchets to see who could launch a ball the furthest. I made the trebuchet which looked absolutely amazing but in doing so it took away from the actual build and the ball didn’t launch far at all. In making this “text” to life connection I now look back and realize maybe if I paid deeper attention to what was asked it would have come out better. In conclusion I will now make sure to look deeper in every single thing I do in my life, so nothing will go over my head anymore and I won’t miss out on some of life’s finest.