an english response

IMAGINITIVE RESPONSE – “good relationships can enhance our sense of identity..”


As she wondered into the big cubed building of Cube 37, she looked up at the big glass automatic doors and gulped, as she knew she was nervous to venture beyond the doors. As the junior circus class finished up in the room in which her new future was going to unfold, she sat outside on the cold leather benches fiddling with the edge of her t-shirt contemplating wether the outfit of leggings and t-shirt was quirky or appropriate enough to fit in within the circus troupe. As the junior class ended and the doors opened the beginning of an amazing journey was about to begin without her knowing.
The group invited her with open arms and no attempt at judgement, but just a big circus hug of acceptance. Each week the big glass doors that first scared her soon became the pearly white gates of heaven, although she had close and best friends at school they never quite accepted her and made her consistently feel accepted then those of her nearly found friends at circus.
Each week a new undiscovered piece of her true identity was uncovered, that somehow disappeared when she was away from circus. The friends at circus soon became the closest thing she had to a non-blood related family, which brought out the best in her.
The girl found that each time she was with the new found family her true identity was able to escape with no judgement, never once judgment only ever acceptance and love, the more she opened up, the more her true self unveiled the more opportunities life gave her within the circus and outside, the circus had become her home, her escape and her family.
As the year progressed, the bonds just became stronger and more powerful to the point that she started to suffer circus withdrawals that gave her severe symptoms of loneliness and sadness. Every hour apart from them felt like years and the days just grew longer and longer until it simply became unbearable to be apart from them.
When it came to the 2-year milestone the bond and whom I was started to strongly develop, and every moment spent away from them faded the person who I was becoming.
As that year came to a close the person who she was, her identity was stronger, she knew who she was and it was because of them.
This girl found a light in the darkest of places; this girl had found who she was and who she wanted to be in the future. This girl was me.