Graduation dinner got me all sentimental
if you are a fun of dinners and events that involve dressing up, like weddings etc, then you will definitely understand the magnitude of my passion for events such as these. They are one in a million and when that one in a million chances comes then some of us prefer to make this moments worth it.
so of course we go all out to ensure that the day counts and we make clothes if we have to, because times as these are very rare. So i went to the salon ready to make my hair, all out, you know something different from my ordinary push back and alas I landed on the idea that a straw set would be perfect.
I am guilty of going to the cheaper salon unlike my friends who would never find themselves in some of those salons, even if they have fainted and needed to make their hair blindly, but this time I opted for the better costly salons which I went to. Sadly the costly salons were full so ended up in the cheaper option ; they are not always good with new things, but was willing to take chances. lets just say it was a backfired venture, what should have been a straw set turned to look like dreadlocks and they even admited it.
How now was I going to attended my last dinner with hair that was trying to look like dreadlocks when it wasnt dreadlocks, plus I do not have a problem with dreadlocks they are just not me, so I ended up going back home and removing that hairstyle and my mum trying to blowdry me with all her might and she tried, she did well, but again it wasnt what I had dreamed of, it was just my everyday pushback.
well never underestimate my mental picture, it always paints a picture so perfect, so colourful almost one that doesnt exist. Well to be honest I did paint a certain picture, almost heavenly, imagining an all white room, color and I think I must have exaggerated that picture a little bit too much, maybe coz its Safari park,one of the most beautiful hotels in the country and I must say I did expect to dance for an hour or so, so indeed i must have had too much energy to spend on that day, and I thought it was brief, maybe not the speeches, i felt those were in excess, though even with this I did not want to go home, i wanted it to go on all night but the dinner ended by 9.00
My heart was crushed like a little baby and so when a chance to do photoshoot came we all grabbed it and that moment and surprising the magic friends always bring to a dull moment. So suddenly we all became models, the camera our friend and the reception ours stage and we had unbelievable fun and made a new friend :), we are girls, there is always those many things that we have in common
And I thought about the number of times we take those precious moments for granted, the dinner was not about the how exotic it would be, food, though I usually dont care much about the food, though food was perfect this time. It wasnt about the decor, it wasnt about having a date, the things that used to matter when we were freshmen, but it was about creating a memory. That even though we came in jeans and Tshirt and met in a sports field, its about being with the people you cherish, for others maybe one last time, others maybe friendships are birthed, others couples are made and for others marriages even, who knows
The precious moment here was time, a four year well spend with some of these people and the laughter we all shared, and here we had one second last chance to be all of us together sharing a meal and yet again we just needed to see that we were lucky to have each other and not even for a second should we forget that. Then there is the wish that everyone whom we begun that journey with was present to have this precious times.
So we have one other day and this weekend is graduation, I have my clothes ready for it but of course we know that graduation will mean soooooo much to all of us and its so much more than being given the power to read and write, it is a symbol of growth and maturity that have well occured in the four years together.
so of course we go all out to ensure that the day counts and we make clothes if we have to, because times as these are very rare. So i went to the salon ready to make my hair, all out, you know something different from my ordinary push back and alas I landed on the idea that a straw set would be perfect.
I am guilty of going to the cheaper salon unlike my friends who would never find themselves in some of those salons, even if they have fainted and needed to make their hair blindly, but this time I opted for the better costly salons which I went to. Sadly the costly salons were full so ended up in the cheaper option ; they are not always good with new things, but was willing to take chances. lets just say it was a backfired venture, what should have been a straw set turned to look like dreadlocks and they even admited it.
How now was I going to attended my last dinner with hair that was trying to look like dreadlocks when it wasnt dreadlocks, plus I do not have a problem with dreadlocks they are just not me, so I ended up going back home and removing that hairstyle and my mum trying to blowdry me with all her might and she tried, she did well, but again it wasnt what I had dreamed of, it was just my everyday pushback.
well never underestimate my mental picture, it always paints a picture so perfect, so colourful almost one that doesnt exist. Well to be honest I did paint a certain picture, almost heavenly, imagining an all white room, color and I think I must have exaggerated that picture a little bit too much, maybe coz its Safari park,one of the most beautiful hotels in the country and I must say I did expect to dance for an hour or so, so indeed i must have had too much energy to spend on that day, and I thought it was brief, maybe not the speeches, i felt those were in excess, though even with this I did not want to go home, i wanted it to go on all night but the dinner ended by 9.00
My heart was crushed like a little baby and so when a chance to do photoshoot came we all grabbed it and that moment and surprising the magic friends always bring to a dull moment. So suddenly we all became models, the camera our friend and the reception ours stage and we had unbelievable fun and made a new friend :), we are girls, there is always those many things that we have in common
The precious moment here was time, a four year well spend with some of these people and the laughter we all shared, and here we had one second last chance to be all of us together sharing a meal and yet again we just needed to see that we were lucky to have each other and not even for a second should we forget that. Then there is the wish that everyone whom we begun that journey with was present to have this precious times.
So we have one other day and this weekend is graduation, I have my clothes ready for it but of course we know that graduation will mean soooooo much to all of us and its so much more than being given the power to read and write, it is a symbol of growth and maturity that have well occured in the four years together.
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