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hat path begins with school. We
are taught to work hard in school
so we can be accepted to a pres-
tigious college or university so that we
can be trained to enter the workforce and
exit with a fabulous job that pays well.
This pathway is enforced so much so
that I didn’t once think about an alternate
pathway until I was exposed firsthand to
a new way of life.
We were seven miles into our back-
country hike on Upper Yosemite Falls
when we came to a consensus that
something wasn’t right. We hadn’t seen
a mile marker for hours. We were all out
of water and completely lost in one of the
densest forests on the planet.
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Just when all hope was lost, a flash-
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man yelled for us to come toward the
light for help. We finally reached the man
and were amazed to see the cleared-out
section of forest in which he and his wife
had been living in for six years.
After hours of small talk, we learned
that the couple were fed up with their
middle-class desk jobs; and the two
picked up and ventured into the wild.
Six years later, they are happily living
one with nature; they hunt for food and
hike down to the lower Yosemite Falls to
shower.
On my travels, I found that the core of
our spirit comes from new experiences. •
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Supporting Yourself
hen I was young, my sister
and I were on Disney’s
website making a fairy
version of ourselves after watching
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure.
When I asked my sister what she
wanted to look like, I was at a loss
when she pointed to a fairy that was
white. When I asked her why, she said,
“I wish I was white.”
At the time, my mother was in our
room putting our clothes away in a
closet and she immediately scolded
my sister for saying this.
Fast forward a few years and now
I am in her situation. I often find
myself staring at the white people in
my classroom thinking about how
much easier their lives are because
they don’t have the added barrier of
being black in America.
Even though I know that being
white won’t solve all my prob-
lems and that being black
is amazing and beauti-
ful, I still can’t help
feeling my black-
ness is a burden.
I want to hear more black people
who have problems feeling like they
matter, so I thought that I should
start with myself. And I guess this is
my way of overcoming this feeling
because writing this is like lifting a
weight off my shoulders.
I strive to remind myself that I’m
important and that I have so many
people who love and support me. I
need to love and support me, too. •
These anonymous essays are from teens at
Friendship Circle.