Ana Artz's Nonfiction English Blog

  Prompt chosen: What are you afraid of? Childhood Nightmares By Ana Artz My current, and absolute worst fear is death, but honestly, I think that it’d be more interesting to talk about what I was afraid of when I was younger. As death feels more like a dripping anxiety for me rather than something I’m simply "afraid" of. It also doesn’t make for a rather entertaining personal essay. Up until I was about 10 or 11, I feared the most irrational things, situations that would never actually happen in real life. Needless to say, I had a wild imagination. Although that was a bad thing for fears, it led me to have a lot of fun as well. To this day I still view my imagination and creativity as one of my greatest strengths as it allows me to flourish in ways that others can’t. Sure, I would love to automatically be able to solve a complicated math problem and handle extreme data sets like a lot of my peers can, as that’s commonly viewed as more useful, but I love being different in th...

  What assumptions do people make about you? By Ana Artz I expect that people consider me to be an unserious dilly dallier, which I am. I love cracking jokes to make people laugh. I love wandering around and exploring new areas. I love crafting handmade gifts for people so that I can see them smile. Overall, I love being unserious and having fun with everything (and everyone) that I encounter. I think it’s great that people tend to assume that I am a happy person, because I am. However, what most people don’t see is how I am also an extremely anxious and fearful person. A lot of the time I find myself scared of what people think of me, that’s partly why I like being perceived as happy a lot of the time, so that there’s no real reason to dislike me I guess. I was also raised in a way in which I was taught to always value the opinions and feelings of the other person before my own, which comes with its upsides but also downsides. It means that I’m careful not to upset anyone and I ta...