There seems to come a point in everyone’s life where they
have to make a decision: follow the socially normal path, or create a new
one. Carolyn, my beautiful sister, and Pearl
Prynne both choose –or maybe ended up with—the latter. Not listening to the Puritan Society, she
lived a life individual to her; free and different from anyone else. She connected to nature because she loved to
be surrounded by the “forest gloom” (Hawthorne 204). Carolyn was also determined to live her own
life; using journalism as a trail, she made herself different from those around
her. My sister immersed herself in writing and reading, trying to make her life
more than just a cookie cutter of school and work. Restarting the Troy High Newspaper, and ultimately
earning an editing role in the University of Michigan Student Run School Paper (the Michigan Daily) made her stand out from every person I have ever met. Attending journalism conferences in
Nashville, Chicago, and maybe –if my parents will allow this—Israel this winter
as well as travels across Europe, California, Alaska, and so many more amazing
places demonstrate her amazing determination to live a life fulfilled. Just like Pearl, her life may result in a way
that is unimaginable: living a civil life married to a man of a social class
that seems foreign. In the end, both of
these people have taught me that different isn’t worse; individuals have
individual dreams.
us <3 (notice the Michigan Daily sweatshirt)
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