Welham Girls' School

In the chaotic bustle of the multitude of thoughts, opinions and judgements that run across your very fragile brain in a fragment of a second, have you ever wondered about how it is possible for you to have so many paradoxical views about the same sweater that your grandma gifted you on your 7th birthday – which you let your dog use as a jumper but cried for hours when he drooled on it? Or maybe the nice lady next door who became not so nice when she let you have only one cookie and then made it back to your highest regard after she delivered a whole box of warmly baked chocolate cookies at your doorstep the next week… 
This isn’t a simple love-hate relationship that you as an individual may have with ideas, people and things around you – in fact it transcends our inter-personal relations and materializes to take centre stage, even in world politics. 
Think of countries like Iran, Myanmar, Germany and more recently the USA – the epitome of democracy – and even Britain, as their government patterns change drastically in a short span of time: It isn’t about political change or evolution, but how we as the same people go from liking something, to having mixed feelings about it but then again crying over it when it is gone because you hated it. The most proximate of these feelings is your relationship with your parents, your friends, your school and even something that you passionately love – like dancing or debating. 
It is this emotional pendulum—of attachment, rejection, nostalgia, and rediscovery—that defines our human experience. We are creatures of contradiction, constantly re-writing our stories and therefore it is in the undefined that we as human beings are able to derive the most meaning of life.