In this story I decided to write about an internal and external conflict. The internal conflict was OCD. The external conflict was getting fired from your job. My inspiration for this story was another assignment we had in design. In that assignment we had to portray a story with an internal and external conflict through photography. This story was one of my ideas for the diptych.
The Need to be Clean
Anxiety rushes through my brain as I am sitting in a monotone meeting room. All I see are suited people around me. Everybody is listening to our boss intently, taking notes on everything he says. But, all I can focus on is his tie messily undone. I feel the need to scream out loud. The need to run away. The need to be a freak.
My boss keeps blabbing on about stuff I don't even understand, without even realizing he is torturing me. I wanna go up to him and fix his tie. I need to go up to him and fix his tie. The way it is undone around his collar makes me feel like the world is coming to an end. I feel like everything around me is blowing up and I am the only one that can save everyone by fixing my boss' tie.
Suddenly I feel the soft silk tie under my fingers. I then realize I have gotten
up off my seat during this meeting to fix my boss' tie. I see all the eyes watching me as I flushed my job down the toilet. As soon as I take my hands off my boss' collar I hear him scream "Get Out!"
I can feel my uptight boss' eyes stabbing my back furiously, as I stumble over my feet, out of the office. Outside, I see everyone around me, I feel them judge me. "That girl just got fired". "I be she has no friends". "She must be such a freak". I wander home, paranoid about what people think of me. When I get home I go straight to my bed and topple over. I free my mind from all worries and fall asleep thinking about tomorrow, all the things I can change tomorrow
