Consequently, the pill has provided me with a sense of agency and independence which would simply not exist if I continued to struggle with debilitatingly heavy periods and painful cystic acne each month. So why now, at 21, do I feel that being taken away from me?
Browsing: Perspective
In 2012, both Popo and I joined Facebook. It soon became our main way to connect. The posts on my wall were frequent and the messages seemingly unending, but what I valued the most were the mundane posts that Popo would share that felt intimate and personal.
However, in the mind of my six year old self — freshly initiated into the schooling environment — the only language I knew to use to describe my experiences was that the other person was “mean”.
A national public service failing to serve the national public? Shocking…
Carrying where you’re from around with you wherever you go means that accents mean a lot to many people, even if they aren’t aware of it.
Of course, you’d expect this “world-class institution” to support the student experience and open its doors to students. In reality, students looking to book a room have door after door slammed in their face.
Surfing is liberation. It requires patience, it requires submission to nature, to forces that are bigger than you, it requires grace and reckoning with your own smallness.
That was the first time I had left Bangladesh behind, not quite realising that the feeling of loss I was experiencing was, in fact, homesickness, for a place I wasn’t born to, for a language I have now lost fluency in, and a family I could not grow up with.
I still feel like a bewildered six-year-old, stretched out into a big kid’s body — and yet I defend the business of small-talk and other banalities.
“Finding a job is easy; but finding an ideal job is difficult. If you want to get a job and stay in Australia, you should try harder and perform better than the locals.”