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College Essay 2
College Essay 2
What do you think of when you see the color yellow? To you and I it most likely means
around the same idea but overall has a different meaning. On the outside to me yellow makes me
think of summer and never ending happiness. But to me it has a deeper meaning, yellow adds a
touch to my life like no other. It makes the awful turn into the amazing and the sadness turns into
happiness. My life has revolved around the color and shaped me into who I am today. For as
long as I can remember yellow has been a part of me since I began to understand colors. It made
me an outcast in my preschool and kindergarten classes. I wasn’t the average girl who loved pink
or purple and I couldn’t even relate to the guys favorite colors of blue or green. My favorite color
was yellow, whenever the teachers asked “ What is your favorite color” I got from fellow
students “Why yellow, gross! that’s so weird ” . Yellow has added the shimmer into my life
and creates a good sensation inside me. Yellow is my special thing, the thing that gets me
through a day.
From being an outcast in preschool and kindergarten because of simply my favorite color,
things didn’t always improve from there as life went on. With friends changing, family
problems, sickness, people moving and everyday life of a kid and teenager things weren’t always
good. I wasn’t always my best self, by finding my simple thing in life I could be my best self
even when times were tough. With yellowness shining through me I understood how to get
through and past everything. It has come with me through the activities I’m involved at dance if
I’m having a hard day I glance over at my yellow water bottle and realize it’s not that big of a
deal and the day will end and things will improve.
Things happen, sadness and disappointment overcome everyone but as I walk through
life I think to myself all you have to do is look on the bright side and think yellow even if it
doesn’t get better it makes me feel more secure and that I am doing something to help myself.
The special thing captures my eye on a dark stormy day and makes the clouds clear away and the
sun comes out. I can always be found being gravitated towards that one simple thing in my life.
Some people may look towards other things maybe they seem more special but yellow is just as
It may just be a color in your eyes but to me, it changes my whole outlook on life and
helps me understand the good the bad and the ugly in life. It can transform the way I think in an
instant from the glass half empty to the glass half full. It fills my life with positivity and
bubbliness.