Quote for the Week!!!!!!!

Ahh. Senior year. Should be the best year of my life so far—again, anyway—since graduation is just around the corner, right? Unfortunately, I seemed to have joined the ranks of fifth year senior, so there goes actually graduating on time (goodbye four year scholarships!!). Getting back on track, I’ve been having an inner debate on what exactly I should write on since I am now a full fledged member of Knoxarazzi, and very much worried about whether writer’s block is going to be my downfall this year. Thankfully, I did divine on one idea that should not be too hard for me to keep up with, and those of you who have at anytime visited my facebook page may already be familiar with this, with slight modifications: Quote for the week!! This one goes out to all my would be seniors who would prefer to graduate this year but for whatever great reason, you aint. Enjoy!!!

“It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life.

Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.”

Kahlil Gibran

How many of us resign ourselves to the fringes of life, never considering ourselves the center of attention, containing no gravity, floating along watching the fireworks of others who have reached that impossible plateau of success and fulfillment? Or even worse, how many of us feel that we do not even deserve recognition for our place in this show we call life? I guess what I trying to say here is, why do we work so hard at dimming our own lights? Yes, I used to be one of those pitiful creatures who became addicted to not only hiding my glow underneath a giant comforter, but I’m also guilty of unplugging the lamp completely and throwing it in the closet! As if it never existed! Even if you are one of those people who claim to not let anything tarnish your silver lining in life, at one time or another ALL of us have been guilty of this. Is it because you were afraid of letting others know who you were? Or were you just unsure of your words, your opinions, you talents, because they are untested and you would rather choose silence to rejection? Fellow UT students, all I want you to know today is this—you are NOT an insignificant fragment, but the center of your own play, production, movie—basically, your life. From the moment you are born to the day you close your eyes forever, you ARE alive!! Inside you dances the very essence of life itself!! Remember that the next time you look at someone else’s light and consider yourself fringe—you are the star in your own movie, so act like it!!

That was pretty sappy, even for me, but I hope this encourages anybody and everybody who has ever at any time forgotten that they deserve star treatment.

Have a good year!!