21st century literature activity 2

ACTIVITY 2 MY LIFE AS A PENCIL As I experience growing up and learned new experiences, I feel like a brand new, newly-sharpened pencil. I feel proud and confident everytime I completed new task adequately, after I finish it I would try do do it again as many time as I can until I feel that I've done my best. I can think of this as my positive trait, but sometimes it would also be one of my flaws. Because like a pencil, life wouldn't always be perfect, same as the times when a pencils' lead brakes unexpectedly. Times like these feel as if youve been betrayed by the world, at a crucial moment, when you need your talent the most, it fails you. These times left my heart broken, failure at these times would linger on my mind for a long time. But life must go on, you don't throw a new pencil because the lead broke, I pick myself up, and sharpened my mind. I need to encourage and remind myself, that success isn't built upon success and t...