College Admissions Essay: My Passion For The Arts

Throughout my life I have pushed myself to try new things. Whether it be participating in different sports, partaking in a variety of school courses, or coming up with any sort of new activity just to keep me busy, I found myself to have created a cast, or a mold of the type of person I am and the type of things that I can always fall back on for enjoyment. My desires for experimentation may bring me temporary joys yet I always find myself stuck to a few core activities which revolve around my passion for the arts. I am able to combine this love and experiment with styles and mediums of art and while sometimes the end product belongs in the landfill, other times I may stumble upon something truly beautiful that will further my abilities to branch out and try new things.
For someone who enjoys experimenting and is always onto new things, it may be surprising that I am quite shy and has been fairly seclusive my entire life. As I grew older and up to this day, I am still faced with being shy but now to the extent where I am constantly battling my social anxiety in this quickly emerging world of social interaction on a level unseen before. I find my thoughts constantly suppressed within my mind, too deep to reach into unless I get handed a pencil and paper, or a mouse and a computer, or a paintbrush and canvas. My art is my voice, although it may be clouded with all the different approaches I take in my creations, it’s all still there. Partaking in the creative process with any shape or form of art is, and always has been my escape, my sanctuary, my passion in life and thus it is what I find myself doing for not only my enjoyment, but also to evoke similar emotions unto