Reflection on my seemingly pointless life that ended up not so pointless.

I always thought of myself as the ordinary girl who never had any real talents and no real interests that could help me establish my life after college, no real interests that would help steer me into a career that I would be interested in. I was not smart like a lot of the people in my academy, yet I was not stupid like the people in the academies lower than mine. I was never as creative as the artists I knew, I couldn’t sketch, paint or take photos as breath-taking as my friends, I couldn’t write nice poetry, I wasn’t very good in math, and I just didn’t have any recognizable talents like those around me, nothing worth mentioning… Entering college I felt lost. I had no interest in the medical field, the business field or the sciences… I sucked at math, chemistry, physics and all of that… But then I stumbled upon my first law societies and justice class. I crossed paths with the law. I stumbled upon the injustices going on in the world today and in the past, I stumbled upon the inequality in the world that existed in the past and still exists today, I stumbled upon my love for speaking up for what is right, voicing my opinion, fighting for what I believe in and using the law as a tool to obtain whatever it was I desired and morally believe to be right. Knowing my rights, knowing that they cannot be taken away because of the color of my skin and where I come from empowers me to be able to fight for those who are stripped of their rights, to fight and speak up for those without a voice. My dream is to help my community, to change my community and to make the world a better place. 

So for those who have no idea what their passion is yet, for those who are lost, for those who feel hopeless in college, for those who don’t know what their interests are, for those who feel talentless, for those who have no idea what direction your life is going, I was there too. You will have your “ah-hah” moment, you will realize what matters to you, and you will realize what you feel strongly about. It took me the end of my first year of college to figure it out, so trust me, if you don’t know yet, you’re fine because you eventually will, just explore all the different things your college and community offers you.