APPLICATION – EMMA CHARMAN
Dear Wallace-Yates foundation,
“How has your education shaped the person you are?”
I believe that schooling isn’t the most important form of education or learning, it’s the life lessons, learning from mistakes, overcoming my distractions, my beliefs and my outlook on life over the last five years. I’m starting to rid myself of distractions; well at least I’m in the process of. The last week of no makeup and accepting my flaws, minimal phone usage, reading each day, freely writing and kind exercise has been building and learning on myself. I think learning and ridding myself of these distractions I’ve lived with for so long (useless scrolling time on social media, obsession on appearance and artificial forms of media/TV/music) has forced me to really reach in. I’m shaping myself through life education. I’m engaged with the sole intention to learn, not to impress or talk. It’s scary and overwhelming how much of my life isn’t ‘real’ life, its screens and images. I have filled most of my reality with contrived unnatural ideas of living. I didn’t realise that I had an addiction to social media and my appearance until I stopped comparing and put down my phone.
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I’m listening more, my mind flows, creative ideas come bursting and I’m quieter too. I also feel softer. I want to be with my family. I want to be careful with who I invest my energy into. I’m engaged with the sole intention to learn, not to impress or talk. With my phone out of my hand and out of reach I see more, I observe parts of life that I’ve never cared to before. It feels like I’m starting to see myself, not through the lens of distractions, but for what’s raging inside, our visions, our fears, our true desires for belonging and togetherness, our individual creative ideas and our powers of innovation. We seek distractions because changing a part of ourselves we dislike is all too hard. I’ve learnt to rid the distractions and educate