Graduation Yesterday, and how I know I can relate to my girls · 3:07pm May 13th, 2017
I sat in the gym yesterday, thinking about life and how I got here...
More importantly, I began to think about the six ponies, my dreams, and how the world around me changed for the better. At first, I begun to wonder if I still could hold true to that since one dream seemed to fall apart, while another became brighter and more open. It was then I begun to realize, yes...I was Twilight Sparkle, and her life and mine were equal to each other.
Much like her, I entered a new place that I had no intention of making friends in. However, over time, I had begun to open my heart and starrted making a whole lot of new friends. Even when I thought my closest friends were gone and I was going to stuck at home alone, I had realized that the friends I had made in college were still here, close to me. Over time, I found my own little place to hang out with and talk to them. Thanks to a show that I love so much, I became more open to others and embraced the magic of friendship.
When Twilight graduated, she spent some time trying to figure out what and who she was going to be. What princess was she, and how much could she still keep of herself. I had the same problem. I alwayus told myself, "I am going to be a teacher. I am going to love it and handle the kids and teach them so many cool things and stories." It...didn't happen. The first two places I taught as a student were fine, but then I had a class from hell and it, kind of opened my eyes. If it wasn't the brats, it was my short temper kicking in, and if it wasn't that, it was my rage against the bullies of the class. And worst of all, those twice blasted SOLs and my supervisor all began to sour the experience. I felt like nothing I did, no lesson plan I came up with was ever good enough. I think the real turning point for me was when I was teaching the kids and they had gotten me so mad, that I felt a pain in my chest. I know it wasn't a heart attack, but I began to realize how my heart couldn't take it. But I perservered and got my master's degree. It's on my mantel, not as a shrine to failed dreams, but as proof that I am able to beat any challenge.
So, like Twilight, I spent time tryign to figure out...what now? During my time as a student teacher, I begun to realize that I had a love of tech. I loved to deconstruct, repair, and build with technology. I loved looking at how the net worked, and how things came to be. I loved to help people. So I figured, that is something I could do to help me become a better teacher.
So it was. I worked on it through four years. I fought my own Tirek (Never got Rainbow Power), and got my own castle. Now, much like Twilight and her mission to spread friendship like a tree...I realized my own destiny.
I love to help people, I am a constant helper. Giving out lessons on how to write, psychoanylasis (I frequently tell people to come to me with a problem, and I mean it), a shoulder to lean on, house care, just something to go out and help a person if they need it. I gradtuated yesterday with a degree in tech, but I know that's the start. Maybe I'll become a CNA, or nurse for a bit. I found others out there like me who have done it because they found teaching not for them. I found it the same way.
It wasn't just Twilight though. Like Dash, I am going to keep at what I am going to do no matter what, and make them work for me. Dependable and strong like Applejack, Kind like Fluttershy, and happy as Pinkie. How am I like Rarity? Simple, I am, and always will be a creator, a writer and crafter of tales for everyone. I will read and dispense the knowledge I accrued for all to hear.
So, yeah...
I guess that is why I love my little Alicorn. We are of the same class.
Grats man
And idiots and assholes exist everywhere, its just a matter of dealing with them in the right way.