#equallove

週刊ビッグコミックスピリッツ No.40 2021年9/20号 (2021/9/6)

Part.I

The Golden Key International Academic society asked me to write a piece about me as a success story and this is the piece you see above...below is some additional information about my life...

The Golden Key international honour society is an academic society that includes the top % of students in each degree for universities all over the world...

When I got to uni I knew one older girl that was on the society and I was so inspired by her that I would visit her weekly to give me tips for my degree and how to become one of the top students.

But life is hard and life as a student was very hard for me. Something I left from the story above is that I became friends with Jehle @mustlikeme4me account in my first year and she met me when I was going through some very hard times...

I was bullied by someone I thought who was a friend at the time plus I lost both my godsisters to leukaemia in the first 2 years of varsity. In my third year of varsity my uncle died and my gran was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Jehlé was one of very few friends who was there for me and who would take me in, hug me and have chats till late at night and tell me about Taylor Swift...

It was back then when I made another friend - @taylorswift . Taylor was in my room while I studied...she was in my car when I drove home crying going to my godsisters funerals and going to classes. @taylorswift was there 4 minutes before every exam....I took my earphones and sat for a few minutes before the exam and get myself into exam mode and get myself to belief in myself that I am good enough and that I can do this... well it definitely helped since I became part of the Golden Key academic excellence society and I got the Investec scholarship and today I am working as an actuary for a big international bank... and everyone on my floor that sits close to me knows Taylor and her music. I am on 4 different committees for the bank and in every event I make sure @taylorswift is present in some form...

Taylor also played a shaping role in my entire coming out story but that is a story for another post.

So this is a post of appreciation to Jehlé, my dearest loving friend, and to @taylorswift has been there every day for so many years. Thank you. Thank you for being part of my life. Thank you for helping me to be a driven individual. Thank you for making me feel good enough. Thank you for believing in me when no one did. Thank you for encouraging me when I lost all hope. Thank you for making me smile and thank you for letting me know it is okay for me as a boy to cry when I need to. Thank you for making me strong. Thank you for being there and comforting me and let me know that it is also fine not to be strong all the time. Thank you for being in my car, my house, at work, at my parents' house, at my cousins' house and at every party I go to. Thank you for being there when I was sitting with calculus, applied statistics, C# programming, economics, life isurance and all my board exams...

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