Megalee: Nothing Special
The history of essay contests has been filled with a bunch of mediocre, cliché-filled essays about dying grandparents and car-struck pets. Occasionally an applicant will have a particularly heart wrenching story about his or her obstacle fighting cancer or surviving a life-threatening vending-machine accident. Unfortunately, since my life has only been filled with boring clichés I have remained a mediocre essay contest applicant. Although I don’t have any interesting story, and the only real reason why I am entering into this contest rather than buying tickets is because I don’t have any money, I still believe that I deserve to win this contest because for the simple reason that I am a normal, boring person.
The history of essay contests has discriminated against normal people like me. True, most people who meet me do not consider me normal (I am often told I am “weird” whatever that means), but on paper I look like a very average human being. I have never been able to master the talent of making the story about when I couldn’t decide which outfit to wear and I was 20 minutes late to work look quite as devastating on paper as it was in real life. No matter how dramatic I believe the situation was, how can I compare with someone who speaks about their experience scaling Mt. Everest? But the truth is, most of us haven’t experienced these life-threatening events and are forever hopelessly essay-contest losers. So, I ask you, rather than continuing the culture of failure, help the true underdog–the one who is too normal and boring to ever stand out. Help us underdogs by letting me, or an equally boring person, win the tickets.