Awakening

As an assignment for my memoir class, I have to craft a story of an awakening I had. I've been thinking now, in the last 48 hours or so what type of awakening I'd like to write about. I could talk about my awakening on any given day, in a spiritual light, in an academic light, in my sense of self-- when I woke up realizing what my dreams and aspirations for... and then today in the middle of my American Lit class, I woke up again..

I for the first time today.. in the year and a half that I've been a college student felt as though I was a real college student. I don't know exactly what it was.. the professor, the students, our conversation about American Poetry or maybe just our physical room-- where we were.. but something inside of me said.. WOAH. I feel like a student in college now.

I'm clearly not going to recapture this moment in a three page memoir-- mostly because I don't know what it was. I don't know why, how, what moment it really hit me... why for the last year and a half I knew but never felt quite like a student... I don't know.

For the first time today.. I felt like a student, in a university, on the way to achieving their dreams, and it was a marvelous feeling.


Always,
H.Eilene