Essay topics: Taboo?

la_montagne
Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:54:46 +0000

So I’ve been trying to think of something that had a significant impact on me, and I’ve been kind of hard pressed to find something. The only thing I can think of is my on-and-off boyfriend of a year and a half. This guy (I’ll call him Bob for now) has some serious issues sometimes, and other times he’s just absolutely perfect. The issues all pertain to school. See, we’re both ranked really highly in our class, but this year I started to surpass him by A LOT. I did better than him in every single subject and beat him on the SATs by 400 points. This caused him to get ridiculously jealous of everything I did (even to the point where he got angry with himself because I finished Harry Potter before he did). His dissatisfaction with himself but his unwillingness to accept help from others has taught me a lot about being happy with who you are and what you CAN do, and not constantly beating yourself up over the things that other people do better. Would writing about something like this-- and thereby showing that I was, in this case, unable to resolve a conflict-- show something bad about my character, or would the fact that I learned something from it overcome that? Would I be obliged to tell them how the situation ended (namely, not well at all)? Would writing about a relationship at all be a good idea?