In the wise words of Taylor Swift: “the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead”. Bit of a hard start there, but don’t worry it’s not (overtly) negative. The Saumyaa that started high school was just a bit of an overachieving obnoxious prat who could not stand not being the center of attention. Expert testimony (*cough* Ananya) can provide evidence that it was indeed quite difficult to actually like me. But that has changed. Most probably. Conclusion is pending, evidence suggests improvement. Anyway this is supposed to be a reflecting blog post, so why am I bringing up all my problems. Well it’s because all of these stemmed from a place of insecurity and the disproportionate importance I placed on my academic fulfillment. My high school experience can definitely be explained as me becoming more aware that life exists outside of all these expectations I had built up for myself. I was a control freak and needed everything to be exactly how it...
This is a blog dedicated to writing about things we learned in class that would appear to people should they have been in that time period, but with the mindset they have now.