Funny enough, both of the pieces that are my favorites were written in the same space of time. ha, get it? because both pieces are about space? I’m hilarious okay.

The one that was written first was titled ‘Time passes, do we?’ and was inspired by Hope’s one act ‘Daisies on a Thursday’. Written initially as an assignment for the ELA 10-1AP, we were told to take something that inspired us from the one acts that we saw in class. I personally love the concept of time and the personification of time, as you can just do so much with it and since it was one of the themes in ‘Daisies on a Thursday’, I knew that I had to write something about that concept. My piece subtly asks ‘what if Time fell in love?’, which is seen through the passage of time and the personification of the idea following someone and falling in love until Time ultimately has to let that person go to Death. It was an interesting piece to write, as it was something that had been running around in my head for the longest time. I had tried to write a love story between an immortal and a mortal and that whole cliche ‘trying to find the person throughout all of their lives’, but it never turned out the way that I wanted it to until I wrote a few lines of poetry on my phone after watching the One Act. The lines ended up being the italicized portion before each new life event, and they sort of just led to what you can read now. The only challenge was trying to personify Time in a way that could stir some sort of empathy, which was honestly fixed because I had a weird dream about the people who I love not being able to see me and watching them. It felt like watching a game of chess on the outside; you know all of the possible moves and who’s going to do what. When I woke up, there was this feeling that stuck with me outside of the dream and I used it to humanize Time. So I just have to thank my weird subconscious.

Before I run out of Time, I should move onto the other piece. WOW I”M THE FUNNIEST PERSON TO EXIST HELLO.

The second piece was also about, wow you guessed it, TIME, but rather than fully humanizing Time I also tried to dehumanize it. That’s where the title ‘Duality’ comes in. If you read anything about mythology, you can see that the Gods have two sides to them, typically known as the Roman and the Greek sides. It’s dependent on how their worshipers see that manifestation of the God. I tried to play with that concept some, as some people love Time, while others Curse it. That’s also why it went back and forth, with the negative aspect of Time, the dehumanized idea, on the left and the positive aspect of Time, the humanized concept, on the right. Again, it was an idea that I had been thinking of for a bit, with the two aspects of something, although I hadn’t planned what it was. I hadn’t fully planned on the progression of the piece, sort of just sitting down at my computer, turning on a playlist (which just so happened to play the exact same song that I had listened to while writing my first piece), and hoping for the best. It just kind of happened, with the loneliness of being immortal just appearing out of nowhere which was fun. I was still in the same sort of mindset when it came to writing this piece as I was with my last one, which made the positive aspects significantly easier to write than the negative. That was the only challenge, as I knew that I wanted both aspects but I slightly struggled to dehumanize and humanize the same idea and create two entirely different sort of characters out of it.