FEATURES 5
THE FOUNDER May 2022
Being a Kaleidoscope of Those You Meet MOLLY AINLEY | CONTENT WRITER
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concept: brought by a single girl learning how the word works. As the term draws to a close, I reflect on who I have met, and how they have become part of me. Chosen or not.
A kaleidoscope shows you an unlimited number of patterns made with limited colour and mirrors. Such a simple concept which engages you for multiple minutes and hours, or at least it did when we were children. I think we work in the same way. I would like to explore this, hoping you will look at how those you meet will always give you something. For we have limited things that exist, but we internalise these things in an exact pattern: a pattern also known as our souls. We look at the sky, the grass, school, our parents- and these all become part of us.
Meaning I am the result of everything around me. Delving into this further, I believe everyone we meet, engage with, speak to, and see, takes a place inside us. Big or small. The people I saw roller-skating weeks ago, are people I still think about; for they looked so free and I envied that. They may have been clumsy at times, but there was an elegance and beauty in how they skated, disregarding who was watching. They gently reminded me how much I love skating, how I yearn to have a group like them to do it with. How watching people love something so obviously can brighten you.
The people who have made me mad, only allow me to reassess myself. For I am not perfect and I must forgive myself for that. The people who I may dislike strongly have only made me stand my own ground, and remind me of what is important. Inside of me is a library of people I have seen and met, people who have imprinted on me (forgive me for using such a twilight-orientated word). See the point is;
I think it is beautiful how we can so easily reflect on people who have never spoken to us, and how there’s people we will see and admire that will subconsciously inspire us to simply be. In the same way a kaleidoscope will use the mirrors to reflect an image, we use the people we meet in our short passage of life to contribute to ourselves.
I believe there is an awful theory we stop growing, and although I may always stay 5”4, my soul and senseof-self will always change for the better. We can never stop evolving, letting people challenge our morals and belief, we also must let them inspire and help us love the world ever so slightly more. Their words will echo inside us. University is when a variety of people all wish to do the same thing, which is get a degree, but also a time when people from different corners of the world can find a common ground, and teach complete strangers who they wish to be. We should never hate that someone had a role in our life, for we learnt something from them. Or maybe I just need to take my rose-tinted sunglasses off.
Source: Chris Lee
The New Generation of Technology AELIYA RAZVI | CONTENT WRITER
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ave you ever been in a restaurant or airport and seen children sitting next to their parents, barely paying attention to their surroundings, their focus instead being completely absorbed by the gadget in front of them? It is an all too familiar experience in the contemporary age and this phenomenon has garnered an all too familiar name: iPad kids. This label has been applied due to the popularity of iPads amongst young children and the way they seem dependent on these devices to be entertained.
It also has negative connotations, with many labelling children who fall into this group as dethatched from the realities of the world and damaging their mental health. Fingers are often pointed at parents for allowing their kids to become so dependent on this form of entertainment, especially when the consequence of it is seen almost immediately after the gadget is taken away in the temper tantrums and cries that follow.
