History Repeats Itself

When I was a senior in high school, I started to write my first novel. I began to put writing above everything. I wrote during class, during lunch, after school, and late into the night until early morning. I even turned down my friends' request to hang out in order to continue writing.

I realized in order to justify writing, when I should be doing homework, I would have to find a reason to prioritize it.When it was time to choose a topic for my senior project--which is something seniors at my school had to complete in order to graduate--I decided to write my book.

History repeats itself. I am once again a senior; only now I am in college, and I am writing another novel. But in order to justify writing it I had to fit it into a class. So I took Individual Studies in Writing. Now, I HAVE to write.

Of course, history didn't repeat itself entirely. This time I do my homework first, go to work, and I remember to return my friends calls.