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the end of the day :: an epilogue

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Professor Jane Doe

Personal Psychology AB

XX December 20XX

Quick-Write Prompt: In 500 words or less, talk about how you have grown the past semester.

I would love to say that I have grown academically, but I would say that I have grown intellectually more than I have grown on paper. For one, I do firmly believe that I have learned over the course of this semester. In my personal life, a bizarre string of events happened to me - fate, maybe? - and made me realize several things. Such are as follows:

1. Bad things happen for a reason. The times I was hit the hardest this semester were off-campus. A personal decision that I had made long, long ago was that I would leave my past my past, and absolutely refuse to acknowledge it personally - it was, and still is, all a fever dream to me. Things that I had done in my teenage years came all the way to America to bite me, and I felt as if I would collapse under the weight of the sins on my back. I cried and wailed and marinated in my regret, but it was all for a good cause, because

2. Good things will always happen. Like onions and cakes and ogres, bad times always come in layers. After you peel off all the rotten parts, you'll get to the shiny middle, the main good event that you were supposed to get out of all of it. Soon after everything happened, a good thing came in a small package at my door and it completely flipped my life upside down for the better. Just like everything else that's ever happened to me, I find my life getting flipped around quite often, and frankly, I'm used to it.

The best thing I did this semester was to learn to accept the things you do and the things that happen because, in the end, it will all come together. The leaves in autumn all fall into place for a reason, and so does everything else. And eventually, I was able to tell myself for once in my life, "Maybe, just maybe, everything is the way it's supposed to be."

And it was.

~The End~