Singing Songs tells the story of a young girl, Anna, who is raised in a less than ideal home. Her and her sisters are sexually abused; her brothers are beaten, and no one steps forward to stop it. These kids are left to defend themselves with the one goal in mind- staying alive.
In the second semester of my freshman year in college, I declared myself as a Family Science major. What can I do with that major? That's always this question I hear from everyone as they stare at me with a quizzical expression. I was recently labeled as "one of those people". And by those he meant, I'm not the student you find at 4 am still beating out my research paper or the student in the chemistry lab for hours on end mixing chemicals and spilling acid on myself. He meant that I won't have to work as hard in college to earn my degree.
One of my friends declared a major because he thought it made him sound smart. He knew it was going to be hard and that he was smart enough to get through it, but where's the passion in sheer ability? I know I'm capable of earning any degree. I just want this one.
I didn't choose Family Science for the easy tests or the lack of chemistry classes (although I'm sure my lab partner from high school is glad I'm dodging any class where I could light someone on fire again). I choose my major because when I finish books like Singing Songs, there is a heart-wrenching pain that boils up from the pit of my stomach! It makes me completely nauseous, and I would give anything to change that one little girl's life even when I fully understand it's just a fictional story. I always wonder where the inspiration for such a story came from. Was there a little girl who went through the same challenges as Anna? or was it a combination of hundreds of children's lives?
It's when things make you so sick you can't sit still, you can't stand by and watch it happen over and over again. It's when there's an overwhelming pain in your heart, that you know you have to stop it; you have to do something to make someone else's life just a little better!
I'm not slacking off. I'm saving the world- one little girl at a time.
Thank you for this Jenny :) I think it is great that you are following what you are passionate about instead of going for a degree that is something that you are not interested in but are choosing for less than ideal reasons. God has given you a heart for those little girls, and you are on the way to make a difference, as far as I can tell :) Keep it up!!!
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