How hard could it be?

Prompt 1: Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

Prompt 2: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?

Here it is, my plan for break has been executed flawlessly, with not a bit of procrastination. Homework has been finished early; the rest of the week can be spent trying to make a dent in the daunting figure that is college applications. (two days later) So turns out the applications were not so bad, just your basic everyday stuff, everything is looking up nicely, only the two essays remain.

It has been a week since I only had two essays to go in my application process, and no progress has been made. Luckily, I was able to answer one of the prompts for my English class, but this second prompt seems nearly impossible. All it is, is a personal statement to talk about who we are (personality) and to test the ability the student has a writer; how hard could it be? First of all, throughout my high school career I have been taught that writing an essay about me and my opinion is nearly blasphemous; second of all, the essay is for Berkeley so I obviously want it to be perfect. But where to start? These essays are so general that anyone that has done anything in their life has an infinite set of possibilities of writing topics at their disposal. So there lies my dilemma, how can I write a perfect essay about myself when I cannot even find the initial inspiration?