The Thaw, most think of the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Some think of something frozen melting, shedding a colder layer. The Thaw can be seen as so much more than just that, it can be seen as the in between, the transition from death to life. The stages of our own lives, childhood to becoming an adult, the thaw can be used to describe the in between years. The years that help shape and mold the adults we will become. The years that cause our innocence to melt away. The Thaw is where I am at now, where all of us seniors in high school are at and we aren’t coming out of it yet. We still are trying new things, making our own mistakes, finding who we are, and do things to become the person we want to be. The Thaw is who we are right now, we are shedding our innocence ;of the world, shedding the childlike thoughts that anything can be at our beck and call. We are learning that reality is hard and life's a struggle, that we have to live it the best we can. The Thaw is showing us that we aren’t invincible and that not everything will go the way we want it to. And yet the thaw also allows us to keep part of the wide-eyed wonder of a child. The I can conquer the world attitude that seems so readily available to every human being. This is what the thaw is, a small part of our rather large story, but a part so important that without it our lives have no structure.
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AuthorEmma Schroeder is 17 years old, a senior at Taylorsville High School, and lives in Taylorsville, UT. Archives
November 2015
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