Creative-Piece-+-Statement-of-Intention高中英语创造型作文.docxVIP

Creative Writing Draft- The Buckets Obiter Dicta Countless expiries have I presided over in the 4.5 billion years of my existence. I have seen everything which came from dust return to dust since the dawn of life, but I only took an interest in life 200,000 years ago. My bemusement was only kick-started by the appearance of a species that possesses a unique ability- the desire to optimise their own lives and more importantly, that of other Homo sapiens. Any educated chimp can make the observation that this desire overrides the primeval instincts of evading me in vain and reproducing, hoping that their genes remain in the gene pool. No organism really gave a damn about another ones wellbeing for eons, it amazed me how the apathetic steering wheel of evolution was jammed in only 200 millennia, and despite the innumerable amounts of relationship breakdowns humans have to endure, attempting to rectify their psychological predicaments is an act worthy of admiration in its own right. An old man wrinkled with age appeared at my doorsteps lately. He should have been mine seven decades ago, in one of his routine patrols bombarded by sniper fire if I could recall accurately, but by Fates request, I relented. Everyone, even me, is equally vulnerable to Fate, and Fate gave me a restraining order to keep away from him until hes in such frail and lonely form because he knew that I can be bit of a loose cannon, putting certain people out of their misery before their time is up. It was a shame, he deserved to meet an honourable end fitting for a soldier. Im not saying that people dying is a good thing just because I want a few more souls for company in my lonesome job, quite the contrary, Im fed up with filling in so much damned paperwork. Instead, the end of his life can only be described as pathetic, he was an abandoned baby that they leave at fire stations, a burden for his family who would not do him the favour of a last pre-mortem visit. I heard his requests, earnest pleas fo