A year ago…
I was an insecure twelve year old…
Knowing nothing of the potential within me…
A year ago…
I had never been chosen, to represent my country,
because of my talents or skills…
much less my achievements…
A year ago…
True friendship remained a myth…
Invitations to the Women Empowerment Day… remained a lore…
And the EAMUN a fable…
A year ago…
I was clueless…
That I was about to experience…
A monumental journey in my life…
An amazing holistically intensifying journey…
The Steam Program…
It has been a thrilling, exhilarating and eye-opening experience. During the entire period working on our prototype- and particularly my Trash Fashion Dress, as I like to call it- I finally found myself able to actually utilize all my skills to make one of my most wonderful masterpieces yet. I relished the moment and thought myself capable of being one of the few selected girls to travel abroad.
Then came my disappointment. It was actually not a kind of raging and suffocating kind of pain, like they say in books and movies, but a tight-lipped anger, with a small ominous voice at the back of my head saying “I knew it. You had your hopes much too high. And all along it was as impossible as the prospect of the moon catching fire.”
I would have cried that day if it were not for the fact that I had endured much greater disappointments (although none was conceivable to my darkened mind at that moment in time). I would also have clammed up yet again, if it were not for my loving family who stood by me prayerfully the whole time. And all their prayers and petitions worked. I am now part of the STEAM Program alumni.
As well as being exhilarating, it has inculcated wisdom and creativity in me… that still astounds my maturing grey matter. It led me to the realization of not only my academic capability, but my cognitive and creative mirage was explicated. Through this program, I honestly have learnt how much potential I have within me and thus, I have been able to achieve much more than I could ever imagine…
As I duly take the turn into fourteen years a month from now…exactly a year on…I have ineffably grown. Thank you for giving me this opportunity.