Tommy Muhl

The energy of my picture reflects everything. Some energy is calm and other energy is like a going off bomb. This came to be from things that happen in my life, and drawing straight lines with a ruler. My picture makes me feel happy and joyous. It is perfect for me because you can tell that there are mistakes, like I make in life. Some are small like forgetting a baseball to put in my bag before I go to a practice. Sometimes the mistakes are much larger. I see my life and sometimes think up glimpses of the future. Every time I lay in bed asleep, I can sometimes see things that are so real that I feel like I am there. Only then do I realize I am dreaming and anything can change.


My picture shows how hard I am on myself. In sports if I miss a pass or miss a shot or miss a fly ball I feel bad. I am not only hard on myself with sports but also with school. Just yesterday I was sure that all hell had broken lose. I was locked out of my computer account, my partner didn’t do a thing to help on our project, and it was due. The teachers gave me extra time because my account was locked. It also shows that sometimes in deep darkness there is always a light. I know they say that in a lot of movie previews, but now I realize it is true, but it isn’t only related to some hero that will fulfill a prophecy.

The first thing that most people realize in my picture is heaven. The golden gates show that now the people who have passed on are in a better place. Though it also reminds me of everything I did with that person. Although it is called the Golden Gates, I think of them being a little bit upsetting.

Another thing that is noticed fairly quickly is the floating bed. It shows me. The balloons holding it are some of my friends. The two balloons that aren’t connected to my bed are friends that are no longer friends. These people don’t treat me as well as I would like, so if they don’t, my time should not be wasted on them.

I am the one in the bed. My brother Eddie is the clone trooper. I put him as this because of how strong he is. My Mom is Phineas from Phineas and Ferb. I put her as this because she is always thinking outside the box and thinking of others before herself. My Dad is Ferb. My dad is very well spoken and smart. He also is very much like my mom, by being so nice to others. The globe being held up is my passed on Grandpa. He was the head of Universal for 40 something years. I put him as the man holding up the globe because he held the whole company together for that long. I didn’t put his wife and my Grandma because I never met her, but she is in the spirit. She was an amazing person. She had 6 kids and then fostered more than I can count. On the other side of the family my Grandparents are the Skype symbol. They are this because that is how I communicate with them. I talk almost every day. My grandpa worked for Reagan and Nixon. He is a very amazing man. My Grandma is also amazing because she gave birth to 7 kids.

As you can see there are a lot of symbols relating to Greek Mythology. I have loved it ever since I was little. My dad had showed me the original Clash of the Titans. Even though now I realize it was not real, I made my dad help me search everywhere in our house to find all of Perceus’ weapons so I could kill any invading monsters. I never did find them, but I did use toy ones. Every day I would walk in to preschool and tell my friends how cool Medusa was. That is how much I loved it. I still do.

Also in the floor there are two portals. The one that says “Never ending fall” refer to all the times I have done bad and feel like nothing has gone right. The other portal that says “Portal to Grizzleheim” is a fictional place. In 2008 I made 2 very good friends that had great imaginations. Then their dad, who is a baseball coach, got a head coaching job at a very nice school in Minnesota. I was sad they were moving. Since we all had imagination, we created a world called Grizzleheim. We made it a place where we could all see each other. It is kind of like an empathy link. But we exist only in each others’ imagination.

Creating this picture revealed how hard I can be on myself, and how much I do care about people. I also notice I can be a little full of myself. Sometimes I brag. I also notice I can be a little bit centered about improving others and not myself. I would like to not be the person who can make people laugh, I would like to be the person who lives, laughs, and loves. I am not saying I am not like that already, but I would like to improve. I feel the most valuable part about me is how loving I am. I am not trying to brag. I cry everyday for people in Haiti. I get sad to think about leaving home and going to college. One night my mom came into my room to check my blood sugar and I was crying 3 hours after she put me to bed. She asked what was wrong and I told her, I had a dream about two of my old cats. These cats were deaf, but were the most loving things on Earth.



This picture made me feel like I was soaring. Not flying, but looking back at everything. The thing is you got to appreciate everything, because in a matter of seconds you or someone you love could be walking towards the light. I will remember myself as a 5th grader. Oh yeah and my mom will probably cry when I read this to her.