Jack:

Good Deeds:

Donated money to charity
Helped people in supermarkets
Helped friends in need of mental help
Coached a volleyball league

Bad deeds:

Smoked for like 3 years
Selfish at times
Terrible time management
Zone out a lot

What is something you're passionate about?
What was your childhood dream job?
What is your favorite food?
What is your favorite time of day?
How do you like your coffee?
On a holiday, where do you go?
How do you handle a bad hair day?
If you were any superhero, who would you be?

Now
1. Making coffee and writing
2. To be an author
3. Sweet pork quesadilla
4. Evening, I feel there is so much time to do things with nice lighting
5. With a lot of milk
6. I stay home with family
7. Crying
8. Spiderman
10 Years from now
1. Writing and being with family
2. Being an author
3. Steak
4. Evening still
5. Dark
6. Visiting my parents
7. Lots of wax
8. Spiderman
10 years ago
1. Video games and being with friends
2. Being an author
3. Pizza
4. Afternoon because school is over
5. I dont like coffee
6. Grandmas house
7. I dont really care about my hair
8. Spiderman or green lantern

I tend to zone out a lot. I have decided to write a poem everytime I catch myself zoning out. But this is hard. I tend to zone out in any random place, which makes it hard for me to just plop down and write poetry. If I zone out at work, I’ll write down a poem idea on my hand. If it is at school, I write the poem. If I am with friends I try to make a mental note, though I usually forget these. Zoning out has become such an intense thing for me, that if i am in the right setting i could lose hours of my day and not even know why. It has been hard with this and I am seeing a doctor soon but I will soon get through this.

I used to zone out a lot. I would always tell myself I would write a poem every time I did to help me document what I felt, but this never really happened. I have a book of poems I have written after zoning out, this is true. But, the frequency of my short trips became too large for me to constantly be documenting them. I no longer lose time, but it is nice to look back and realize how much better I have gotten. Reading about trips through space from the comfort of my desk, Lovecraftian horrors I had just begun reading about. It is intense to read, but brings me joy.

Jacob Gustin

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