Not for me. The love I felt when I was younger was recently brought back to life by an English teacher who cared. An English teacher who pushed her students to learn to the highest degree. An English teacher who didn't give an easy "A". An English teacher whose last year as a teacher at my high school was my senior year. I still carry it with me today. I had a teacher who pushed his students to achieve to the best of their abilities and gave honest grades. These honest grades did not always please parents, and the school would rather have fewer complaints from parents than the idea that their English program lacked rigor. For me, writing is a gift. There are more people in the world than I know who have not been given the opportunity to get an education. And without education there is a struggle between expression. I believe that writing is one of the highest degrees of expressing one's feelings and I will always have the love of writing ingrained in me by amazing English