4^th Year....SAY WHAT!?!

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama

It is here! Our fourth and final year has arrived and I am slowly starting to get a grip on the thought of having to tune back into reality. For New Years, we went down to the beach to watch the firework display, which is a huge attraction every single year! What made this year so extra special was that it didn’t rain for once plus there were 80 odd sky lanterns floating around high up in the sky. We also brought along one, which we lit and were about to let go, when we realised that it had great difficulty rising up into the air. Many bystanders had caught sight of our struggling lantern which was now heading for rocks and instead of laughing and ‘writing’ the lantern off, they CHEERED it on!...all of a sudden a gust of wind caught hold of the lantern and very slowly, it gently rose into the night, joining the others in the vast darkness, vigorously shining its little light, which could still be seen from miles away!  As I was sitting there and observing this whole scenario, I thought to myself what a great picture it paints of our lives as OT students, who very often stumble and take quite a while to regain their ‘orientation’ in order to start rising above the ‘rocks’ and into a 'sky' of possibilities where we are called to shine our little lights in every possible way. It is up to every single one of us to...”be the change that you would like to see in the world.”

Here is to another year full of special moments, hard work, loss of orientation, hardships, life lessons and love for others.

xxx