The Balancing Act

The guide through "the best years of your life" (Tertiary)

According to a lot of people, your tertiary years are supposed to be the best years of your life. But why?  Well simply because they give you the chance to become a whole new person, I mean think of it. During your primary through to your high school years, your constant battle was fitting in.

Whether it was for a spot in the top five percent of the smartest kids in school, or the sport stars of the school who brought in silverware and countless medals to the school which in turn brought them adoration from both the learners and the teachers at the school or maybe you secretly marvelled at the why some kids could be the class clowns and somehow still be able to become the teacher’s pet, or maybe you went to one of those schools which had a total different social pecking order, a school were the smokers and the dice players were looked up to either way you still wanted to fit in. Fast forward about ten years later, at this point your main or primary concern is to make sure that little Themba does not get into fights at school or that boys stay as far away as you can possibly make them, from daddy's little girl. Whew! Depressing isn't it, but the saddest part is that you will be that mom or dad someday.

 Now back to the present, first of all, varsity life is filled with many influences that will make you feel like you  are the coolest dude ever to set foot in the Southern hemisphere, but perhaps the saddest thing is that you  can swiftly move from that, to feeling like the most pitiful looser that ever ate, drank and slept. Well in all fairness, you might never actually experience how both opposites   actually feel, simply because you are a PR student. Alright, alright maybe that’s a bit of a stretch but seriously though, the communication skills that often seem like a “drag" or a punishment for forgetting to say grace before you ate last night, will one day make you one of the best in whatever path you choose to follow. Okay enough with the preaching, but allow me to quote one of my favourite and  the most motivating people I have ever seen, and simply say" Greatness does not announce the path it is found in, one simply comes across it on the way, chasing their dreams" Oh and by the way, I am that person!  Of course, I see myself almost every day, in the mirror.