Four years ago, Pratusha predicted that at this stage in her life she would have been accepted early to Harvard, arriving to prom in a limo, and enjoying a stress free second semester. But, “it’s definitely not the picture I envisioned,” she said. “Little did I know that everything would end up changing.”
It is the perpetual theme nowadays. Change in politics, in faces, in experiences. But change was a process for Pratusha. The 10 senior girls who she knew would be “static and stable in her life,” were not the only people she grew close to. She soon met 7 people of which 4 are junior boys to also share some of her life experiences with. People she marked as annoying and naive soon turned out to be the people she would end up sharing her high school experiences with. She can’t help but “laugh at those expectations” when reflecting on the past. “‘I’ve definitely broadened my horizons, and looking at me now, I guess a lot of things I expected for myself are different,” she said. “I built myself on what I wanted to be.”
Life Lesson: All these variables in her life have not made her focus on her past as much as they aid her in analyzing the future. “For me, it’s about accepting the unknown of the future,” she said. “Expectations will be destroyed and nothing will be the way it seems.”
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