This past weekend I have been introduced to a level of enlightenment that I have had yet to see. I have long pondered thoughts of where I've been or where I'll be. I've thought these things so long that I have forgotten to ponder where I AM.
Coming to college I was an animal. I tried to impress people with what I thought they wanted to see. I partied every weekend and payed little attention to my studies. In turn, I became a failure. Long story short, I looked at myself one day and did not know who the reflection was in the mirror. I thought of my future, being the biologist, SCUBA diver. This reflection from before showed only a deep, dark pit of mistakes and my future from this reflection held the same.
This past weekend we held our ritual called "Hoop of Steel" which is basically a senior-sendoff for members of our fraternity who have completed their undergraduate programs. From this, I received recognition not for who I was, but for who I am now. I saw my life without light, and I struggled every day, barely a year ago, to change who I was. I stand among a group of men who have been built into bigger and better things, all because they saw the light of accomplishment. I now know what I must do in order to continue to light my way, and rekindle the fire that my father and mother birthed me with.
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