Me and Dressy

While they might not have given me a clear picture of my future, my teachers and parents valued books and being smart, and that ended up finally being my way out.  Oddly enough, because I came from a lower, lower-middle class, rural community where education wasn’t about training future academics, because we weren’t being “prepared” for that, we were encouraged to feel happy and be loved right where we were, our self-expression was fostered and valued (within limits), which unintentionally opened the academic world to me.  Maybe the most fundamental thing I was given back then was hope.

© Salahub 2003