Junior Ella Beesley touched
up the makeup on her face as
she got dressed for another day
of high school.
She had trouble deciding

what she should wear but even-
tually decided to go with a chic

outfit with matching shoes.

She ate breakfast and gath-
ered everything she would

need for her classes.
As she headed out the door,
she told her family to have a
wonderful day and that she
loved them.

She parked her Jeep Chero-
kee in the school parking lot

and walked to her first hour
class.
In Spanish, she overheard
some of her fellow classmates
talking about minimalism

which was the concept of liv-
ing simpler and maximalism

the idea of having more.

She knew what these char-
acter traits were and considered

herself to be a maximalist.
“I am a maximalist because

I take an extravagant approach
to everything I do and have
a flavorful taste,” exclaimed
Beesley.
Beesley was walking in the
crowded hallways of the high
school when she accidentally
bumped into another student
dropping her books.
The highschooler she ran
into was Sophomore Colton
Bratcher, and he helped pick
her supplies up without being
trampled by others.
Colton woke up early that
morning and went to his closet

where he threw on some ran-
dom clothes.

He then went downstairs
and ate his breakfast, quickly,
so he would not be late for his
first hour, band.

In the hallway after his sec-
ond class, he moved to the right

dodging a group of friends, and
that is when Beesley bumped
into him and dropped her
books.
He helped collect her books
from the ground and went his
separate way.
At his next class he heard a

group of people talking about
a subject that he had no care
for which was minimalism and
maximalism.
He had always believed that
most things in life should be

simple and never overcompli-
cated.

“I am a minimalist because I

get straight to the point and be-
lieve simple is better,” declared

Bratcher.
These labels were first used
in the 19th century to express
the design and creativity of
mostly art.

However, they have be-
come characteristic traits that

now describe how someone re-
lates to themselves and others,

showing the huge divide in the
world.
Some people choose to have
a more simple life because that
is their personality while others
decide to be involved in more
complex activities.

Minimalism and maximal-
ism demonstrate how people

are different and each should
be accepted, not judged.