Oyena Gwebityala

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!! I have just realised that I have 3 months of full time varsity studies left. I started looking back at what I had done in varsity, had I achieved what I set out to do, had I done all the things I had planned to do. And the sad answer was yes and NO. Yes I have achieved all I set out to, but only academically, I get a degree in 3 months time and that’s all I will get from Wits.

No I have not done all the things I planned to do that one cold and long car ride from the Eastern Cape. And that is where my problem is. I am entirely to blame; I focused on other things that I thought made me happy and on the most part I chickened out. In my entire life I can remember one event that I fully regret, it had to do with debating (the story of my life) and I hate how regret feels, so I am not going to put myself out on it’s path again. In the next 3 months I am going to do all the things that I planned to do, and I have already started doing some. Here under is a list of the things I planned to do when I got to Johannesburg/Wits and it’s broken down into 2 parts; 1) Stuff I wanted to do on my way to Johannesburg and 2) Stuff I wanted to do from my first month at Wits:

1)     

–       Eat Sushi (still think it’s disgusting)

–       Get a piercing (Ouch! But ok)

–       Bleach my hair (No pictures)

–       Wear my pants below my ass for a week (My mom would skin me alive so no pictures- I’m very scared of that woman)

–       Walk around with untied shoelaces for a week (Again my mom)

–       Buy a whole chicken and try to eat it alone (Always thought it would defeat me)

–       Lose lots of wait and audition for an advert on TV (I’ve tried to lose for a week in the past 3 years and considering the point above I will have to try harder)

–       Cut a pair of jeans and wear it (Mom again)

–       Have a joint ( My dad would arrest me- so maybe not)

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–       Go to a mosque (Salam malequa – I think )

–       Date a person from a different race group (White, Indian or coloured?)

–       Go to a live concert (Don’t know why I have never done this)

 

2)

-         Sit on the library lawns (Check, might do it again)

-         Bunk a lecture for no valid reason (my window of opportunity has passed for that one, I need that degree)

-         Go to a party on campus (check, not doing it again before I graduate)

-         Score a 100% for a test/exam (Have come close - 98% but never quite)

-         Kiss someone and run (should have done this in grade one, now it might just be misconstrued as sexual harassment so I’ll pass)

-         Swim in the pool by the matrix (Too deep I can’t swim well)

_Fall madly inlove and get my heart broken (I don’t know if this can happen in 3 months)

That’s about all the things I can remember wanting to do at some point in the past 2 years. So now I’d like to ask all my friends to keep me accountable here. Ask me what I have done each week and maybe with your help I can beat my chicken syndrome.

The big O

 

 

 

 

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