The Hermit Diaries

In part two of this two-part series on “The Power of Change”, I will be discussing the second biggest change that I made in 2017 and that was moving. As an introvert, I am naturally a homebody. I love to have a place of comfort, surrounded by things that I love (hence why my family calls me “Hermit”). I do, however, have a sense of adventure and I love to take solo trips by myself to the beach. In my 24 years of life on this planet earth, I have only ever lived in 3 different provinces. Spent most of my life in Boksburg (14 years to be exact), so I really did grow up in there. I loved my childhood in Boksburg, I had my best friend next door where we would put on plays for each other or play games where we threw our toys to each other and yelled: “I don’t want it, you can have it”. The school I went to for 8 years was a Catholic school (for girls) was beautiful, and even though I was getting bullied, I still loved going to school every day. Boksburg library was also my favouri

Human beings are habitual creatures. For many of us we wake up, go to work, come home, eat, read, sleep, and repeat. For a lot of people, this is actually good for them, they feel content with having a routine, and they love the work that they do. Others aren’t so lucky, and they then feel as if they are in a rut. This feeling of being “stuck” is your conscience trying to tell you that something needs to change. I, for one, have been there until 2017 when I made two drastic changes.   For as long as I can remember I have always loved kids. Whenever a teacher in high school would ask me what I wanted to do with my life, I would always enthusiastically answer by saying “I want to become a preschool teacher”. I was in love with the idea of focusing on special needs education, my biggest dream was to inspire those kids with knowledge. I had it all planned out, I was going to go to the University of Pretoria, live in a student residence, get my education degree and work with children

Many introverts have been called “hermits” without actually knowing the true meanings. So here are the two Oxford Student Dictionary definitions for the word hermit: “1. A person living in solitude for religious reasons” “2. A person who prefers to live alone” I’m taking the word “hermit” and attaching it to this project of mine because I want to make a statement. Introverts who are constantly called “hermits” just because we prefer to be alone rather than gossip about people that we don’t even know does not mean that we don’t want to have a connection with people, we just define that connection differently. So why am I doing this passion project? Is it for selfish reasons so that I can just talk about myself? Kinda, but the word “selfish” seems a bit harsh to me so I’m going to call it “voice”. I just want something that is mine, something where I can have 100% creative control. For as long as I can remember I’ve always been the oddball of my friends and family, and whil