" to which i responded, "that's not really what it's about." for a moment the words died in my throat as i pondered his response. his words made me think about the glass ceiling, the glass house, and the hard edges of glass that are used to protect what's hidden behind it.
when i was younger i found that even when i tried to push against the glass, my hands wouldn't go through it. as i came of age and my concerns became more my own, i realized that there were people who were doing it. they were not able to see me, but i could see them.
if there is glass around you, you have glass ceilings. i had a glass ceiling when i started college. i was ready to leap out of my comfort zone in my first year of college. but my mom had never graduated college, and i wanted my mother to have the same opportunities that i had as i grew up. when i started college, i was so anxious and stressed about what i had to do. i looked up to my friends who had graduated before me and knew what to expect. they were able to put their anxieties aside and embrace their new lives. they held the key to my future, and i was waiting on their advice. my friends were graduating, but i could still not leap off of my fear. i had to take a leap in my senior year. with a life-changing amount of work, i completed my senior year, but it was the longest year of my life. i think it took me a full year to realize that there are people who are following their dreams, but for some reason, i just could not move off of my glass ceiling.
this semester, when i came home from class, my roommates and i had the most wonderful time talking. we talked about all of our goals, dreams, and fears. we cried a lot about the pains of growing up, but we had a sense of excitement that we wanted to make a change in our lives.
but we always thought about who would hold us back. we thought about what kind of influence other people would have on us and what they could tell us. we worried about what we needed to do to get the message across and then who we could trust. after two years, i can tell you that there are people who want us to leap off of our glass ceilings. there are people who want to help us, but for some reason, we find ourselves unable to trust them
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