SIN CITY

UNEDITED SAMPLE LITERARY ARTICLE
By Jhoan Amuten Encarnacion
IV - Enrico Fermi


Being a youth can be fun and confusing at the same time. In this complex stage of our lives, we tend to question and test the limitations our elders had set before us. We used to live our lives the hard way as I look at it on the angle of my perspective. As a result of our selfish acts and immature deeds, we struggle from the sand pit of confusion, doubt, anger and pain. These will eat us up until it reaches the ends of our pride. Our pride to live our lives the way we wanted to with the foolish idea of freedom and independence. And so, if we cannot endure anymore how deep we are devoured by the hungry stomach of reality, we humbly, others, still swollen with pride, plead for the remedy coming from the wrinkled lips of love and understanding. It is the gentle blow which wipes away pervasive and oppressive specks of sand that almost covered your whole body.

Why do we need to suffer such agony?

It is because of a simple reason: we learn by doing. In other words, our significant experiences everyday, good or bad, teach us how to truly learn and understand complexities in life and to formulate our own convictions and main purpose of living.
By experiencing such things that would either hurt us or help us, we obtain security and assurance about ourselves.

This is why most of the youth make so many mistakes. We take so much risk, that we caught ourselves unaware in our own web of deception hanging on the barely visible thread in fragile state that could be broken by just a gentle breeze. Some just cannot stand the powerful tornado that tries to shake one’s roots and lift him up into the swirling wind of instant hideaways. They just escape from reality and enter the enormous city of sin.