'Other Self"

       When I think of my ‘other self,’ I think of something that would represent the complete opposite of who I am. I decided that the perfect match for my other self was indeed a three-toed sloth. These animals spend up to eighteen hours of sleep everyday! I’ve sometimes wished I could be one of those people who just go home, do nothing and sleep or watch TV. (That’s my lazy side talking) But I’m not like that. I actually rarely just watch TV and I don’t think I’ve ever taken the bus straight home after school and walked into my house seeing the time as only 3:00pm. But instead I choose to work out or be on a team that leaves me walking in the door having to read the clock as 5:00pm. Also a sloth is quite dirty. In fact a green algae grows on its coarse hair and communities of a parasiticmoth live in the depths of its coat producing caterpillars which graze on the alga-covered hair. This is defiantly the opposite of me. Ya of course you have the days where you may not shower (example camping for a week) but I can say that I like to be clean and not look like a grease ball. Also the first thing that some people in the class said would best describe my other self is a cheetah because of its speed. I may have speed but I needed to find an animal that suits the complete opposite of me and since a sloth’s muscles are such that it is quite incapable of moving at any speed whatsoever. This is the speed of my other self. Finally the first characteristic I learned about a sloth was from the book Life of Pi in which it was said that a sloth is almost blind. This was the one characteristic that brought me first to the sloth. Although a sloths sight is retrospect to mine, I think your other self should share one thing in common. So the fact that we both can probably not see whose waving at us from 10 metres ahead (maybe even 6 metres, have yet to find out since I constantly where my contacts)  makes me laugh that this is the one similarity we share because it’s so true. Overall I think the Sloth is the perfect representation of my ‘other self.’