The power to read and write, finally
So the announced date finally arrived and by morning I did not know what I was feeling. For a minute I thought the whole world is exaggerating the emotion of graduating and making it look like some really huge thing until when I wore my gown and walked along the corridors and at that moment you imagine that the whole world is watching even when no one is.
For a minute one feels like a bride in black and a new life yet to begin, and within a split of a second you are not a student anymore and the world and people who have invested in you will be watching to see you take charge of your destiny and help others discover theirs as well and you have no idea what being told that you have been given the power means. It feels like real power has been given, well of course it is real power. And for me it is more than just the power but the symbol of growth, to watch this girl grow from this.
from this...................... to this................
Coming in as a fresh man I must have been one of the top five attention lovers, I just loved attention, somehow I had to be the center of it. I wanted to be everywhere, to be seen, to be spotted, to be heard and definitely to be visible. I wore all bright colors, 3 quarters of all my clothes had to be pink for whatever the reason. Man made hair aka weaves were the solution to my never growing hair, some worked some didnt, all make up, some of which overdone and way out of league and most of all I had to be late for everything and sit all the way to the front, who does that, and when I think about it now, I think its hilarious, because for some reason you imagine the whole world revolves around you, but really it doesnt, not that I dont love attention now, but I Kinda shy away from being all over the place and seeking for it. At that point in life image was everything even though we really did not have the right glimpse of it. I can say that the four years have seen me evolutionalize and gain character and becoming a different person all together and I can see first years who are who I was in first year and am like woi they do have alot to learn but its beautiful lessons, I wouldnt trade them for anything.
I know the world out here will have less dramas or maybe no drama, I was surrounded by drama, and though am not usually the center of drama, I have had my moments, am trying to imagine a place without drama, that is adult hood.I must admit there is the interesting part of drama and gossip which one outgrows with time, but a part of me will miss it, just a bit, though the most of it is glad that roles have changed now and we have got wings to fly as high as our hard work and prayers take us.
I am enthusiastic about the new phase,it feels like a start over, and I am exited about it. And just like every stage in the past you decide who you become in the new phase and so do I decide what I will be in this new phase, we got the power :), who know maybe some of us will acquire accents, a new walk, new new, but one thing I know for sure is I would love to keep the child me alive :)
from this...................... to this................
Coming in as a fresh man I must have been one of the top five attention lovers, I just loved attention, somehow I had to be the center of it. I wanted to be everywhere, to be seen, to be spotted, to be heard and definitely to be visible. I wore all bright colors, 3 quarters of all my clothes had to be pink for whatever the reason. Man made hair aka weaves were the solution to my never growing hair, some worked some didnt, all make up, some of which overdone and way out of league and most of all I had to be late for everything and sit all the way to the front, who does that, and when I think about it now, I think its hilarious, because for some reason you imagine the whole world revolves around you, but really it doesnt, not that I dont love attention now, but I Kinda shy away from being all over the place and seeking for it. At that point in life image was everything even though we really did not have the right glimpse of it. I can say that the four years have seen me evolutionalize and gain character and becoming a different person all together and I can see first years who are who I was in first year and am like woi they do have alot to learn but its beautiful lessons, I wouldnt trade them for anything.
I am enthusiastic about the new phase,it feels like a start over, and I am exited about it. And just like every stage in the past you decide who you become in the new phase and so do I decide what I will be in this new phase, we got the power :), who know maybe some of us will acquire accents, a new walk, new new, but one thing I know for sure is I would love to keep the child me alive :)
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