english 101

my family sat down to deliberate on the next move after my graduation from the high school. Whatever was discussed that day by my family behind the rolled down curtains yielded enough results, and everything was agreed upon, here I am, my first day on a campus. I came with my dad and the journey was long so we had to wake up very early in the morning so as to make it in time for registration and acquisition of a room for my accommodation for the next couple of months that I am going to be on campus. When my eyes first beheld the scenery, there seemed to be a lot to take in, the buildings, the number of people walking in various directions, it was amazing and somehow satisfied my perceptions about what was ahead of me. The registration and accommodation were over within no time. Before his blindfold removing revelations, I always perceived and thought highly of university students and its environs.

Call me naive or a conservative but are not these the things that we are supposed to be educated so as to fight against? How then will we fight HIV and AIDs and other sexually transmitted diseases, stop liver cirrhosis and lung cancer if the people that have the chance to learn and explore how these conditions are affecting various economies and destroying lives are not able to practice self-control and reduce their spread? On the contrary, they are the ones, in fact, aiding the faster spread of the diseases, where will our help come from then? As these thoughts lingered through my mind, my roommate apparently had realized that I was taken aback by what he was telling me, then he said something that made me determined more than ever not to fall prey of the campus lifestyle that is swaying many,” my brother, don’t worry because it won’t be long before you join the pack” as the plain words fell on my ears, that very moment I made a promise to myself.