Sep 29 - Write about something that you believed as a child.

Response: As funny as it is, I used to believe everyone around me was a robot, and I was the only one actually living. When I was in Pre-K or Kindergarten, all my friends and teachers went to lunch, but I forgot my lunchbox and had to go back into the classroom for some reason. I've had this faint memory of a poster with a red crayon character design displaying the words "5th grade" or something on it in my classroom, and it physically opened up like a mechanical door to reveal a secret dark lab behind it with a bunch of creepy robot aliens with huge eyes (almost like the alien creatures in the movie "They Live"). I remember seeing this when I was younger and thinking that nobody in my life is real and they're all just robots stalking me. Basically, my 5-year-old mind thought he was in The Truman Show without even seeing the movie. I believed everyone around me secretly knew each other, and were all watching me every second of the day. Even my closest friends and family members, I believed, were all robots or monsters who were just studying me for a science experiment. As I grew up, this belief eventually faded, but always at the back of my mind, I wonder if anything in this world is real.

Summary: Today, we worked on a worksheet about our personal goals in life and read Act One, Scene Three of Fences. 

Reflection: Our minds as children can have such an interesting imagination. As we grow older into adults, we realize how silly things from our childhood were, like the fairy tales we used to believe.

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