During this semester I feel like college has been a “Jungle”. In my first semester, many obstacles always seemed to try to bring me down and get in my way from being successful and being happy. By listening to Drakes song “Jungle” I tend to think about how life is like a Jungle and you have to navigate your way through all of the beautifully dangerous life forms that live there. The academic difference from college and high school is crazy. In high school I received second chances, the opportunity to form a personal relationship with teachers, and also was able to turn in assignments as late as a week after it was due without any credit being marked off.
I feel like college really woke me up with a little smack of reality to let me know how serious education really was. College for me isn’t hard it’s self, it is the work pile up that’s hard because students have other things they have to worry about outside of the classroom other than typing 6 page essay’s in 48 hours. Life outside of school is where I struggle the most because not only am I the man of my house but I’m also treated like the baby because I still have much to learn. In Drakes song “Jungle” he says “Rock me real slowly, put a bib on me, I’m just like a baby” (Drake).
Those lyrics mean a lot to me because when everything gets tough I’m the one everyone calls on but any other time I feel like I’m on this lonely long hard journey to an unknown future everyone has prepared me for since the first day of kindergarten. Spending a week in the jungle changes you as a person, just as if you were to spend a week in my Vans. During the semester I felt like “I’m all over the place I can’t sit in one place” (Drake) because other than being there when my family needed me I’m also there when my job needs me. No matter what, I am and always will be the type of person that doesn’t like anything just given.
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I take a lot more pride in earning everything myself because I am trying to prepare myself to prosper in the Jungle. “Time is money” (Drake) is the way I see it. I feel like there is always a purpose for what I am doing whether it is school or work. Everything I do affects me in the long run. Money makes the world go around in my eyes, and what’s a life without it? Through this semester I felt like I never had that one person I could trust and ask “If I need to talk are you around?” (Drake) as Drake said in the song “Jungle”, but in some ways that made me stronger. I became used to solving problems on my own which is the path to me becoming an independent young man. In this course through the “Jungle” I am currently still taking, “I pray that God handles all things above me” (Drake). Life to me was never meant to be easy but I believe if I keep continuing to push through I can make it out of this huge “Jungle”.
