Minerva was the Roman Goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, crafts, magic and war. In other words, Minerva had challenged the colloquial states of Gods and decided to become a goddess in all the fields she treasured instead of sacrificing her life to one. Minerva was also a rebellious spirit sometimes. She did not let the world rule over her life and would always fight to defy the rules that she thought undermined her milieu. Today, the characters, spirit and traits I own are what I assemble and call “Minerva in me”. I let Minerva take over my soul when I grew up to realize I needed her personality to become mine, in order to survive in this world. However, times to times Old me still comes back to overcome Minerva. Africa, Rwanda, …show more content…
Where has that strength gone? I have seen you make it through situations when you were incapable of studying or leading clubs because of asthma. I have seen you smile as they cheered after your campaign speech for president of student government, even though you were the only one in the room who knew how nervous you were the night before. I have seen you fight for what you believed was right. Like for the times, you became extension programmer for Girl Up, when spreading the news of girl empowerment to other Rwandan girls was you’re greatest inspiration or times when your girls at school needed you to reform the tiring school timetable. I have seen us wake up every day and say the little quote that you love “Be that lady, when you wake up in the morning, Mr. Devil cries Zut! The lioness has woken.” I want you to remember all the times when you learnt from tears, when you realized maturity came with understanding, when you forgave those who hurt you most, when you met friends like Chrystelle and Liza and let them teach you how to come out of your cocoon, when you decided to never give up, when your desire for success overcame you’re fear of failure. I want you to remember all that, and when you’re done, I want to see you stand up like the real Minerva that you are and face the world one more time, because your spirit of war has always been stronger than anything that happened to