Spring 2007 High School Edition
Window Shopping
Nicole Mayerhofer
Essay (9th-10th)
Third Place
Success Academy
Teacher: Tina Bishop
An experience I would like to remember is when my family and I went to the mall in California. I chose this memory because it was one time, as far as I can remember, that my parents actually got along and looked like they truly loved each other. I remember they were smiling and holding hands and laughing; they really looked like they enjoyed being with each other and that they took pleasure in the time they had together. I remember we all went to a See’s candy store and got a box of delicious, smooth chocolates. We each had a choice of six chocolates and we all chose which ones we wanted, whether we all wanted one thing or a mix of things, just like our outlook on life. You can stay with one thing, or explore the unexplored, but no matter what you choose, the choice is yours. Now I, of course, stuck to my one favorite chocolate, but in the end we all ended up trading and sharing with each other. We all had tremendous fun walking up and down the mall window shopping and wishing for things we knew we could never be able to afford. It was a bright day because the brilliant sun shone through the sky lights of the mall. It was amazing because you could see every speck of dust floating in the air like there was no tomorrow and everything seemed so right in the world. It seemed like time was wrapping itself around us and everything seemed to happen so slowly like in a movie, how in a special scene everyone is walking and laughing in slow motion. That day was one of the happiest days of my life, but like a paragraph, life doesn’t have only one period; no, the sentences keep flowing on and new topics are created, and after that sentence is over a new one begins, an even better one.
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