Warrior Princess

According to a Buzzfeed.com quiz entitled “Which Strong Female Character Are You?,” the female character that I reflect most is Xena, Warrior Princess. Unfortunately, I have no idea who that is, so I am unable to tell whether or not the analysis was accurate. After wasting about an hour taking an incessant number of Buzzfeed quizzes, I tried to determine which fictional character truly embodies me. I considered hundreds of fictional characters, but none of them seemed to truly capture who I thought I was. Eventually, I surrendered, and asked my parents for advice. They encouraged me to write about Boo, from Monsters, Inc. I could not understand what similarities could possibly be found between me and an animated child, except for the fact that
we may have had similar appearances many years ago. My mom then said that it was never our appearances that were similar, but our outlook on bad situations. I never really understood what she meant until I sat down to write this essay. At first, I had thought it was just a sentimental memory that my parents had, reminiscent of my childhood. But as I thought about it more and more, I realized that Boo and I have a lot more in common than I had thought.
As a child, my parents made sure that I was sheltered and loved, and that nothing would ever cause me harm.
And nothing ever did, for the most part. Now, as a teenager, I look back on my life, and notice that I seek out change, and I approach it with open arms. One of the things that I pride myself most in, is my ability to accept challenges, and most often, welcome them. There are few things that I find exciting in life, and one of those is change. While I am no warrior princess when it comes to facing adversity, I do see myself as someone who embraces my setbacks, and can find a silver lining in them. Similarly, Boo faces a strange, yet significant hurdle in her life; being trapped in a parallel universe as a child, where monsters exist and humans are unwelcomed. She was never scared, never confused, and always encouraged others to do the right thing. As a child, I remember reciting lines of hers and wearing my hair in pigtails, unaware that in the future, my character would so closely resemble hers.
I know that I want to be known as someone who is never scared, who always makes the right decisions, and is fearless, but I think that I still have a lot to learn, from Boo and from myself. Although Buzzfeed may think so, I am not a warrior princess, nor do I wish to be. I need to learn to be happy to be myself. That is one of many things I still have yet to learn from
Boo.