Hi Friends! Today, after a lot of procrastination I wrote a descriptive essay for my English class. I decided that I like is so much that it needs to be shared. So without further ado, here is my paper.
Dance of the Black Swan
It was a typical Monday morning. I lazily placed my feet on the bitterly cold floor, let out a desperate yawn with my whole body stretched out as though praising the ceiling. I checked the clock and realize that I have inadvertently slept past my alarm. Frantic like an angry rhinoceros charging an intruder, I was reminded that if I was late to work once again I would lose my job. I quickly pulled on my boring blue scrubs and rushed out the door and towards the bus remembering everything except for my name badge. While on the bus, half asleep I struggled fervently to pay attention to where I was going. Finally, after realizing my stop, I prepared myself to cross the street. I had crossed that street many times before; I had no reason to believe that this Monday would be any different from any other. But as I was crossing this time, Black Swan danced gracefully in front of me triggering a chain of events that would forever change my life. In an instant nothing is what it used to be.
When I first heard of a black swan my imagination flashed with a scene of a graceful long necked shadow of a bird dancing amidst the waning moon across a shimmering pool of cool water. Little did I know, Black Swan is a metaphor created by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain unexpected events that occur without warning and without being able to be explained. Black swans change the course of history forever. My world view is based on the black swans in my life. Black swan dictates my present and future. Call it fate if you will, but how you perceive the events that occur when Black Swan visits your life and the events to follow shape who you will be for the rest of your life. Because of Black Swan’s visitation, my faith has grown, my debt has increased and I have received experiences that I would never have had otherwise.
That freak Monday, I absent-mindedly decided to cross the street the same time that a motorcyclist decided to pass around the bus. For the Motorcyclist it might’ve been a normal Monday bike ride until Black Swan decided to make her appearance. For the bus driver it was just another monotonously standard day at work. The same goes for my co-workers at my retirement home too. Black Swan has a way of turning the tide of everyone’s life or the boring day in question. For me, it was a gigantic, oozing gash in my left leg. For the motorcyclist, it was bruised ribs and a trashed Harley. For the Bus driver, it was a shocking scene before her very eyes and an impending pile of paper work that never seems to end. For my coworkers the opportunity to apply their first aid training that never gets used outside of emergency circumstances that rarely involved people that they were intimately familiar with. No matter how the others were affected because of my accident, My life is the only one I can speak for. However that gash in my leg caused me to look at the world a little differently.
Before Black Swan made her appearance, I would have described my life as hopeless and without a formidable future. Black Swan forced me to see how I was wasting my life at a dead end job and that I needed to pursue my dreams that had been ripped away from me like a limb that I could never live without because of the circumstances that I have been placed in. I was worn out from trying to achieve something that I knew that I would never be able to obtain. Because of Black Swan I was given the courage to overcome my fear of the future and make a positive step in my life. I was shown what I am truly capable of and I now see a greatness in me to reach heights beyond the stars. I was also shown that God still had a hand in my life and I didn’t have to be strong on my own. Because of this new outlook, I went to a university even though I never thought I would be able to. I also was able to do things and meet people that I would never have done without Black Swan making her appearance.
I am grateful for Black Swan. She points out the grace that God has granted me regardless of the way I have mistreated him. I now see different ways God has placed her in my life to create the person that I am today. She has helped mold me like a piece of pottery that is slowly becoming like Davinci masterpiece on display for the whole world to see.
