Discovering Yourself

During your time at university, chances are you may have an identity crisis. This is where I believe you'll truly discover who you are as a person so I wrote a poem that relates well to this:

Who are you

Looking in the mirror, unsure of what you see, 

Created by rumors, and what people believe. 

In a hope to be accepted, we foolishly accept

A life chosen by others, forever to live in regret.

Individuality is seen as foreign, probably as much as the person who holds the title. 

The strong willed are cast out and judged to be loners

So they plug their headphones in, and Into the music they zone out.

Friends dictate your thoughts and the emotions held by your heart,

But still we follow the crowd, in fear of being cast out 

You slowly become what you thought you would never be,

But is that not what they love? Is that not what they want to see? 

Lessons taught by elders wither away with all morals,

We wear the mask forged by peer pressure

And instead of leading we follow. 

So as you breathe your last, and you ask yourself who you are, 

Were you living as you? Were you unique and free?

Or were you living the life that people wanted to see?

Russell Gwata (2013)