PRetty Black legs and Mirrors

Tisch School of the Arts
Writing the Essay
MW, 11:00
Wesley Webb
Mirrors

Xosha Roquemore

We are all brought into the world the same way, innocent, naive, guile and unaware. The only things we know are these which we are taught. We are brought into this world to be influenced by our surroundings and in turn to let our surroundings shape our character. As young children we are free of inhibitions and worries. We are self-centered in the sense that we don’t care how our actions affect other people; we only care about what we want to do and how we want to do it. We learn that other people also have feelings and we learn how to take those feelings into consideration. In turn, we get our feelings hurt and we begin to hurt other peoples feelings. When we were young, we saw people, places and things for what they were. We possessed a fearlessness that only the blissfully ignorant experience, we did not know what could hurt us so we walked around as if we were invinsible....