<p>This is my response to the prompt: "Describe the world you come from--for example, your family, community or school--and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations."</p>
<p>Opposing Misbehavior</p>
<pre><code>When preparing to write this essay, multiple sources suggested that I draw from the hardships or troubles of my life, and describe how I grew as a character due to enduring these difficult times. When contemplating what to choose from, I found it increasingly challenging to select a proper topic to discuss, as my life has fortunately not been enthralled with many adversities.
I pondered this for some time, as it appeared that whatever the scenario I imagined was always the typical: the time I scored the winning goal or, how I learned to ski. Although, I agree, both topics seemed exceptionally fascinating, I could not find a proper experience that I underwent that properly reflects my personality today.
Then, sleep deprived and demotivated to potentially no return, I considered my desired topic differentlyavoiding the usual experience cliché, and instead substituting it with lifestyle. Why draw from one instance when a multitude is much more profound? This is when the breakthrough happened. My neighbor. A popular icon utilized in some essays to highlight their exemplary behavior or humane prospects radiating to all other inhabitants of the neighborhood. Not in my case. In fact, I have endured for the previous thirteen years of my life what most consider a degenerating relationship".
It is a known fact that everyone is imperfect, and we all have our differences, but for the most part, we learn to coexist. However, my neighbor is something else. It sounds so profound, it may very well be out of an article of alternate life forms, but my neighbor is so infuriatingly arrogant and immature; nevertheless, she provides countless opportunities to build upon, by learning what not to do through her perilous actions.
She is uncomfortably omnipresent. There has never been a time that I, and my family included, have been able to be present outside, without the unconscious feeling of someone peering through the fence line.
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<p>She is infatuated with the feeling of empowerment as well. Why is it that you must send us an email monthly describing some obscure situation that you want changed such as basketball hoop relocation or proper gardening techniques? The list is infinite, but all instances are described using the same principle: an attempt to gain a false sense of superiority over others.
The police visit our house multiple times per year not due to outlandish teenage parties or accusations of drug dealership from our suburban home, but instead are called at her will in correspondence with a varying array of actions from our partnothing, keep in mind, being egregious or illegal. Most recently, my father and I attempted to exterminate the population of gophers behind our house using a device that engulfs the chambers with propane and compressed oxygen, to then ignite the combination with an array of flames and dirt, and effectively extinguishing the gophers inhabitance. A perfectly legal, commercial device was seen to be the exact opposite by my less knowledgeable neighbor. Thirty minutes later, four officers were at our door with allegations of bomb threats from, none other, but our neighbor.
Such a benign case may seem unnecessary to discuss, but it is the ideology behind the reoccurring actions of my neighbor that have driven me to such a conclusion. Personally, I tend to shy away from confrontation, a mannerism I developed through the misbehavior of my neighbor. I avoid trouble at all costs and always deviate away from violence. I have learned to coexist with another person that despises some people so greatly, she attempts to persuade others, falsely, of all the wrongdoings of the inferior group. Let her be called a second generation Hitler, although extreme, but by her ploys of behavior, I have developed to be the antithesis of this less fathomable entity.</p>
<p>Let me know what I can improve on, and how. Thanks for your time.</p>