My Tapestry
By: Megan

Imagine if there were no words in this world. Words don't exist. They are meaningless and powerless. Imagine if the only way we had to communicate was through pictures and colors, designs and shapes. It would be quit a struggle to comprehend what everyone is trying to say. Well that's what I want you to do as you read my paper. I want you to picture what I say and see the descriptive words making a picture in your head creating a story. I want to see what you can understand in my life from reading the images I describe. I wonder how different your perspective will be with the picture from the actual story.
In the beginning its always happy because there is nothing to be sad about. But as you go on in life there are journey's that will take you places you haven't even dreamed of. The trip is a hard one and has a lot of curves and bumps. But don't worry you'll make it, because everyone else has.
Sunshine seems to be the first thing that would come to you when your born. Being in a dark cold space for all that time you'll probably really enjoy some bright warm light. So that's where I begin, when I was born. In the very left corner of my tapestry there is a sun shining down bright rays. To the right of that there's a bright blue sky with divine clouds making indescribable shapes. Right underneath that there is a a huge field of grass with sunflowers, daisy's, and dandelions. Just like I said, in the beginning it's always happy. As you travel on there are new things that appear. There are now tree's with branches stretching high up into the sky. Oh and what's this? A bird in the tree. New things are appearing and you learn more and more as you travel down the tapestry.
Next things get a little down and dirty. Underneath the green trees and grass there is dirt. Brown, tan, ugly dirt with a few gross worms. It's okay you can't be stuck there forever. But unfortunately it gets worse. Below the dirt it's a whole other world. It rains there all the time. There are terrible storms that occur with vicious clouds. The rain goes on and on until suddenly it stops. The tapestry shows pictures of violent storms with dark gray's and blue's. Then it becomes a clear crystal blue and it covers a good portion of the cloth. I can finally see, the rain is gone. It's an ocean, a dark blue ocean as flat and still as a board. I look for more but that's all I can see. I look in all directions and it's just blue, sky and ocean. The blue draws me in further and further, deeper and deeper, out in the ocean you get closer and closer. I want to get out, see more but I can't. I turn my head in all directions, spinning around, frantically trying to see something different. It's kind of like the truth was there and I couldn't take it. It's not what I wanted, it's not what was suppose to happen. The picture shouldn't look like this. It should be back on land, where it's safe but I'm trapped.
After what seemed like an eternity I wake up. I come to something different. It's land. The picture shows more blue but this time with a small patch of grass. I can't say it's a good thing though. How am I suppose to trust it again? It left me, now I'm suppose to just go back on the ground and trust it again. It took a while but finally I got the courage to get back on the grass. Only this time I was careful, this time I saw the holes and learned how to avoid them. The grass isn't that big but it is a spring green with a few holes representing that it's not fully trust worthy yet. The grass begins to grow wide and far and a few flowers pop up. It's getting prettier as it travels on. Soon the grass grows long and wide leading a pathway. But as it stretches along the flat surface there comes an end with wild light blues, and colors never seen before. It's an island, a paradise. I've finally reached it, the beginning again.
Life is a journey and you will definitely see a pattern of how you have low and high points. But I've learned you go through everything for a reason. The situations you go through in life make you grow and learn. It's incredible everything that can happen and everything that won't. I know I still have a lifetime more to learn and grow but so far I have discovered that life is just one giant tapestry waiting to be lived.
Okay well now that you have the picture I want to give you the real story, even though the tapestry was way more fun to write about than an autobiography. Well, the first paragraph of the tapestry, as you probably guessed was about me being born and the adventures I went on and learned from. The tree's, birds, and animals represented me starting school and the new education I was discovering. I was home-schooled for 2 years before going to an actual school. The first school I went to was a small private school called Heritage Christian Academy. I loved going to school.
The next paragraph begins the downhill stages of my life which lasted a pretty long time. The dirt and worms start the sticky situation by standing for the small fight my parents got into. The wild storms describe how the fights would get worse and worse until one day we just left. And then as you read, it became calm. My parents split. A year later I switched schools to Thurgood Marshal. But so many other situations occurred and it was too much to handle and having it all there in front of me brought me blank. I forget to live in the present, not dwell in the past. These events were really taking a toll on me. I didn't want to face what was happening.
Then in the next description I slowly began to come to reason with these tragedies and let myself take back control of my life. I got excepted into Cab Calloway and that really brought my confidence up. But I didn't fully trust everything yet. What if things crumbled again just when they were starting to get better? But eventually I made that big step and lived again. That's what the patch of grass stands for. The flowers come back because I begin to remember my old ways and learn new ones. In the end I come to a paradise which represents the move to Hockessin I just made. I wouldn't call it paradise and I wouldn't say I'm happy to be here but I know its for the best. Finally I have reached that point where I'm happy again.
So did you guess my story from just the tapestry or did the summary of my life explain it better? Well I hope you liked both. The two perspectives are very different but then again they are telling the same story. Personally I liked the tapestry better. It gives you an idea but doesn't give the whole story away. That would be the problem if there were no words; you would have to make up the missing pieces of the picture.

 

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