Unsupervised Soliloquy

When you go to bazaars, there are usually rules understood by all of the people involved.    It’s first come first serve when it comes to the actual good items. All of the items can be easily replicated but the seller will act as if it’s one of a kind. All of the items were probably the rejects from China or Japan. The prices are more than triple what they are actually worth The store clerks don’t really have an understanding of the value of the product. All they want is the sell.  However, during the Cultural Festival at our school, the vibes were different. The people there seemed to actually care about what they were selling. To be honest at first I thought it was a quick cash grab from the students of a rich school but once I bought a bow and stick (not arrow because that would be dangerous) for only fifty. The man that sold me seemed very adamant that I pick the good one. I went there with my friends and they were looking at these bead creations and I, being the chil

The thing about video games is that if the game itself is not good, well made and artistically done items such as weapons make up for the lack of good content. Iconic weapons such as the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (TM) or the different blades from Dark Souls become iconic symbols of these games and the fanbase its created. However, my friends told me that there was a bow and arrow at the Cultural Bazaar in front of our building and I freaked out. A bow and arrow! In school! I would not miss the opportunity to be like Wander from Shadow of the Colossus in school. What I got was a wooden bow and arrow. The arrow was made of some sort of caramel brown wood and the string was tighter than a guitar's. I always imagined bows and arrow were made of steel and have jiggly strings that feel like soft yarn on your skin. This one felt more real. It's as if I understood the practicality. These things were probably how they actually made them. Not in some movie or game.