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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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I want to run away

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Submitted by loverofbeauty on January 23, 2008 - 19:50.

I want to run away

By Sally Tucker
Hartford High School, Grade 9

I want to run away
From the intense swirling judgment
From people not accepting anyone else
Not knowing any opinion but their own
I want to run away
From the disastrous news stories
Scrolling across the blinking screens
From the bickering countries' arguments
Interfering, complicating things
I want to run away
From the popularity contests
Roaming high school hallways
The media blasting into our brain
The advertisements forcing down our throats
I want to run away
From drugged up, medicated role models
Polluted rivers, global warming
Companies creating new entertainment devices
While thousands go hungry each night
From this animal eating, TV-watching culture
I want to run away
From fighting, anger and hate
From stick-thin girls thinking they are fat
Love classified as right or wrong, no in between
From teens cutting, puking, starving themselves
Drinking, smoking, ruining their bodies for fun
From dense, impenetrable, dim judgment
I want to run away

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