I always say that people who met me after I left high school know a completely different person from who the ones that met me before or during high school did.
I’ve been trying to figure out when I started becoming the person I am right now, and it just but me that that happened somewhere in my Uni days. To be honest, the transition started slowly in senior high school.
Before University
Before senior high school (SHS), I was deeply in love with books. The lady bug type of books. This love I believe, is most likely responsible for my ability to read and write now today.
From primary school (somewhere around I think Primary 3) all the way to junior high school, my brother who was the then headmaster of a primary school in my town used to bring me lady bug books everyday from his school’s library. I liked them pictures of the colorful pictures used in the storytelling. The images closely resembled a show I used to love watching on Viasat 1 Tv….
… Tinga Tinga
I think it’s fair to say that when I was around 10 years, this was the best thing on Tv for me! I thought I was the only one in-love with the show until I saw people making memes about it on Twitter after I became an adult
After SHS
I dumped lady bug books for movies. The period I was getting into senior high school was the same time my big sister got into university. She’d just gotten her laptop and loaded it full of movies.
Given my naturally curious nature and love for anything fun, I started watching most of her movies with her, even though I didn’t understand some of the stuff sometimes. This was another huge way I built what is now my current diction, and even started developing a sense of humor.
This was an off and on thing though, cos until we were both on holidays, I didn’t have access to her laptop cos she’d be in school.
By the time I finished SHS, I was a full blown movie addict. I no longer relied on my sister’s laptop anymore because I bought my own phone then. Lol you don’t even want to know how I got the phone.
I started off with movies like the Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Dominion, and the likes. Of course, which movie lover can call themself a movie lover if they haven’t seen Merlin and Legend of the Seeker.
I still find it interesting how much I used to watch movies in high school. What I like though was that I used to study as much as I watched movies. I would study at night prep from around 7:30pm to somewhere around 12am at the least! Then after class, I’d pick my mattress out into our dormitory’s yard, enjoy my movie with a soft drink and biscuits, sometimes Gari when I was very broke. Lol
University
Pre
Because of my unregulated obsession with some of the movies I watched in high school, I basically copied the personality of my favorite characters from my favorite movies. So I basically didn’t have a “personality” at the time. I could be a dragon lord today, a vampire tomorrow, and cartoon character the next. Lol
In
University was when I started finding out about myself. I went through a lot of self discovery and character development in university. I think this was where my sense of humor developed fully. I arrived in Uni a big villager in every way you can think of the word villager. My dressing was wack, my taste in music was wacker, I was broke, and I didn’t have any game!
Fortunately, I’m a fast learner, so I picked up on the trends, dos and don’ts, and blended in quickly. So by the time we started mingling among ourselves on campus, I had a somewhat tolerable and presentable persona.
Still, looking back at what I considered a presentable persona then now, my toes curl in cringe.😂 It’s understandable though, because that persona was it at the time. IT just happened to changed over time, but luckily so did I.
Who you see now
2 years out of University, I have morphed into this person that I see as somewhere towards my best self. I’m sure though that in a few years from now, I’ll redefine what “best self” looks like again. I surprise myself a lot in terms of how much I evolve, and my general life experiences over time. What is important is that I’m still alive and continuously growing and changing, and I’m sure whatever the future holds for me is exciting!
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