You know the saying “She only told me what I already know”? Well it’s usually used as a derogatory type of term but today, for me it had positive connotations. Today was one of those days where you sit back and say “Well that was the last day of the beginning” or “Well today is the end of the start of forever” or whatever philosophical musings take you. This is because today is unofficially the last day of matric for the class or 2008 which means it’s unofficially the last day of Grade 11 for the year below. I happen to be in the year below.
So today was quite long but I will not go into the long, pointless and frankly annoying descriptions of today’s events because they’ve been the same for the last 130 years and are likely to stay the same for just as long as it takes for the world to end. So this lady, Anne Trapido, was our guest speaker and I think sought to put the fear of reality [not god] in the prim and proper madams of Durban Girls’ College...I think she succeeded on the most part.
Her speech was basically about how she thought she needed to do something “worthy” with her life because of her totally uppity schooling but she ended up realising she hated it when she was 28 n then became a chef instead. That my friends, is my greatest and worst fear, but just as surely as I learnt to not follow the herd when compromising my beliefs, I’ve also learnt to not, not follow the herd just for the sake of it.
There are so many things I want to be, so many things I want to do and I don’t want to waste time because I might miss doing something else I wanted to do. I think I’d kinda thrown medicine waaaaaaaaay out the window and was vacillating between journalist and supremely awesome history teacher/music producer when this realisation dawned upon me; doing any of those would not be enough for me.
I want to change the world, in a meaningful, big way I want to change it. It isn’t good enough for me to watch people I taught become great because of me, I want to be great myself. I don’t care if I have fun while doing it or if I get to go undercover in some covert operations scheme behind enemy lines. I want to physically be helping people. I want to see the results I made happen and I want to be alive to see it happen.
So ladies and gentlemen I give you Dr Safura Abdool Karim, graduate of 2009
So today was quite long but I will not go into the long, pointless and frankly annoying descriptions of today’s events because they’ve been the same for the last 130 years and are likely to stay the same for just as long as it takes for the world to end. So this lady, Anne Trapido, was our guest speaker and I think sought to put the fear of reality [not god] in the prim and proper madams of Durban Girls’ College...I think she succeeded on the most part.
Her speech was basically about how she thought she needed to do something “worthy” with her life because of her totally uppity schooling but she ended up realising she hated it when she was 28 n then became a chef instead. That my friends, is my greatest and worst fear, but just as surely as I learnt to not follow the herd when compromising my beliefs, I’ve also learnt to not, not follow the herd just for the sake of it.
There are so many things I want to be, so many things I want to do and I don’t want to waste time because I might miss doing something else I wanted to do. I think I’d kinda thrown medicine waaaaaaaaay out the window and was vacillating between journalist and supremely awesome history teacher/music producer when this realisation dawned upon me; doing any of those would not be enough for me.
I want to change the world, in a meaningful, big way I want to change it. It isn’t good enough for me to watch people I taught become great because of me, I want to be great myself. I don’t care if I have fun while doing it or if I get to go undercover in some covert operations scheme behind enemy lines. I want to physically be helping people. I want to see the results I made happen and I want to be alive to see it happen.
So ladies and gentlemen I give you Dr Safura Abdool Karim, graduate of 2009
