So it’s already been another week, huh? Jamia here again and I want to tell you that I want myself to be the kind of person who can react to all situations appropriately. I believe in the first excerpt I talked about being pretty flexible before, and if I didn’t say that, well, that’s what I was hinting to anyway. You see, you find the best messages in between the lines of quotes, reads, verbal phrases, and (as cheesy as this is about to sound) the emotions and thrills of life. I state this for two reasons, my cubicle is now dished out in visually-aesthetic quotes, foreign phrases and definitions for one, and for two, right before writing this a speaker that was asked to come in today gave me some enlightening information generally about feelings before jumping into a new stage of life, how our journey honestly never ends, and how the best thing for you to do, for you to find out today is find your ‘constant value,’ a value that you will stick with throughout your career(s), and a value that will stick with you throughout your career(s). I know it just sounded like I was rephrasing what I said, but what I’m trying to get at is that you must consciously find what’s important to you in terms of a career and that whatever you find, you will unconsciously stick with it anyway if it is a ‘constant value’.
Now, I went off track there, but as far as what enlightening information I heard, it was more personal than the one-size-fits-all advice. I’ll be clear on this; I find it hard to stay motivated to work hard for college opportunities or applying for scholarships to be specific. I’m a senior in highschool now, so my parents have been on my tail about college so much more than any other time in my life before. In conversations with my parents that I get dragged into, I hear: “We’ll apply to Northern Kentucky University…[Ja]Mia, are we in agreement here?” And like that it’ll feel like the decision slips out of my hands. Here, I know the fault lies with me because instead of constantly applying for scholarships I’m playing videogames, reading, shopping, and texting friends. That has been my entire summer.
When the speaker comes in talking about taking steps and finding mentors, which is the normal inspirational item every good speaker will talk about, against all else, something clicked, and my mind was racing thinking of what I could do as soon as I could get home. I haven’t yet prepared a definite solution, but I’ve figured out a step closer to my future. On my way back home I’ll repeat “act on it” in my mind like a mantra, and now that I’ve written it out to be published publicly, I figure I’m gonna have to make it happen. If I end up at least asking my parents for help to proactively aim at my future, I will say, the women of color, Raechele Gray, is a great speaker past just being ‘good’. I’d like to think that not only the power of her words, but the power of sensing a message between the lines (which will turn out to be a different message for different people as far as what rings true for an individual) was what really got to me, but I don’t really know, I’m still thinking about it even now.
So, that’s it for this week, besides the fact that I finished the videos on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript basics on Treehouse and am just gonna go back to mostly reviewing CSS. I’ve said a lot this time around, so I’ll leave talking about how creating a website for our assigned business partners goes next week as well as a bit more about my personal life. Until next time!