Rage, Rage, Rage against the machine
This is a photo of me my first day of University.
I still remember the feeling of walking down the road from my Mum’s house bright and early on ‘Registration Sunday’, with 2 big carry-alls, one over each shoulder and a ruck-sack in the middle. I hadn’t lived outside my hometown of Flint before, and part of me couldn’t really believe that I was on the way out.
It had been a dream of mine ever since I was a young lad to go to uni, to study something interesting, even if I didn’t know for years what that was going to be. I had never thought about the life surrounding study, nor the friends and ‘enemies’, the challenges or elations of daily life as a free-thinking adult.
That morning as I walked to the train station, stacked like a pack-mule and brimming with energy, excitement and even those niggly fears; I didn’t really know what I would find, what I would become, where that would take me.
That first day, as I sat in a £2 photo-booth on Preston train platform, and tried to look like a guy who knew what he was doing in life, I suddenly realised: it didn’t really matter… bad, good, silly, heart-breaking, uplifting, inspiring, educational, challenging and provocative, it was awesome anyway :)
I post this today, simply because, whilst my university education cost me almost £12,000 in student loans, which still today are not even remotely repaid, but I am ok with that. What I’m not ok with is the fact that my younger sisters (thanks to David Cameron and all those other lying bastard politicians hiking the cost of an education anywhere upto 10 times what I paid) might never have the opportunity to experience what I believe every young-adult should… they deserve the freedom to figure out who they really are, before they get shoehorned by the uninspiring overlords of modern society into any hole those bastards in London think they should be shoved into.
It may not be an original concept, but I hope the recent student protests (or more accurately ‘riots’) continue in future, not for my benefit, since I’m pretty-much old now, I’ve already had freedom and learned from it… but for my sisters… I hope they all continue to rage against the machine.
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