Oh, The Joy!
"The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!"
- Dorothy Rothschild Parker
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
- Elbert Hubbard
It’s my first day of classes. Finally. I’ve been awake since 4am (just as I was stirring, my roommate had to go to the bathroom) and my bundle of nerves would not let me go to sleep.
I also heard something. My mama.
She told me that she loved me in her special way and that she was proud of me.
I’ve made the right decision. Now I must follow through.
In my cleaning out a junk room, I found a binder. Inside it, I found something that my mother had written. I started to read it a couple of weeks ago, but changed my mind. I packed the binder away along with my office supplies that I would need here (at school). I read it last night before I went to bed. I will post what she wrote another time. I realized that, between reading what she wrote and hearing her this morning (along with that day, August 25, 2006, when I had to work at that diner-style restaurant), I have not only made the right choice by returning to school; I also now know that I must follow through. I know that the school that I’m attending will be difficult. There are some very intelligent people here that refer to this school as such.
I simply cannot let that stop me. Nor can I not let “me” stop myself from completing the task at hand. I see it. I see the brass ring. I’m nowhere near touching it, but I see it. For that, I am grateful and determined. Not many people even get the chance to consider the acknowledgement of the brass ring and I saw it!
