Resuscitate

Being filled in over my head with academics, dance and music orgs, plus other supposedly insignificant things, it feels quite good to be welcoming summer. Despite having a summer class, and I mean literally just one class, I feel the sense of freedom hanging in the air surrounding me. But as I was saying goodbye to the transes and hand-outs that have kept me company during the past semester, I once again came across what used to once keep me busy during those little tidbits of free time during high school.


And I thought to myself, what happened to that part of me? Where did that part go?


Amidst all the demands of undertaking the course that I've chosen, I realized that I shoved a part of myself, a hugely significant part of myself, almost out of sight. And I knew that that wasn't right.


No matter how busy a person may get, how hectic and demanding his or her life may be, one shouldn't almost  forget himself or herself in the process.  If you do, then how will you grow as a person? If you start to push aside parts of yourself to make room for other things that label themselves as more significant, then where will you find yourself at the end of it? Will there still be a "you" at the end? Or will a "you" cease to exist and will what remain be merely parts and pieces simply held together by a just?

Every part of yourself is significant. Every part should be given equal importance. No part of yourself should be undermined or pushed aside to make room for more important things-- there are no more important things when it comes to what makes a person complete. There is no "more", there is no "less". No part is too big or too small. Each part should have equal value, equal significance. Because de-valuing even just one part of yourself would make "you" cease to have meaning. There would be an imbalance. There would be a change in the composition of the "you" that once was.




So here's to recovering a part of myself that once was. Here's to revival and re-discovering. Here's to re-developing. Here's to remembering. Here's to never forgetting.