Dear reader,
As my next victim jokes, we have two weeks to save this semester. Luckily for you, this is the last time in which I am going to bother you with the wishes of other people, so that you can fully devote to your most urgent goal right now, namely to pass the finals.
The person with whom I decided to meet you today is the one who I should have interviewed at the very beginning of this blog if I had to arrange my interviewees in order of importance to me. However, as I have already mentioned in my previous story – the best things, always come last.
Without too much beating around the bush – this week I am going to tell you about the dreams of my lovely roomie – Desi Nikolova.
We found each other on the first day of the Orientation Week three semesters ago. I will never forget the first time I saw her and I am sure that she has no clue about this random meeting. I was going to our room together with my mother. When we walked out of the elevator on the fourth floor of Skapto 2, we saw another mother-daughter couple that was to go down. The one and only thing I asked myself at that moment, as we were passing each other, was: Is this girl going to be my roommate? A few hours later, the door of room 2426 opened and thank heavens that same girl walked in.
I have to admit that we are not very much alike. But this is what makes our life together so exciting. Our first year at AUBG was a series of unforgettable memories that won us the hatred of our initial neighbors. As a result, now we are living one floor below – a change that we do not regret at all, because the boys who live next door definitely share our noisy lifestyle (although it is also possible that we are just getting older and well-behaved).
We needed some time (not too much) to get used to each other. In fact, mainly she had to get accustomed to my awful habit of getting up early. But who cannot start liking me, and most importantly, who cannot start liking Desi – her jokes, her sense of humor, her crazy ideas, her exceptional cooking skills, her laughter while sleeping (which is a bit creepy, but you get used to it with the time), her honesty and straightforwardness. I love our girly talks and I love even more the moments when we decide to go to Intro to Sleeping instead to Calculus. And honestly speaking, I cannot imagine waking up at the end of our favorite class and seeing another person on the opposite bed.
Desi has always been passionate about music. After all “those who sing, do not think evil” as one Bulgarian proverb says. As a kid her one and only wish was to be engaged in music in every possible way and “basically this happened.” She participated in many concerts and even in an opera. She was performing all the time and she even recorded a song. However, fame and success didn’t turn her head. Actually, she would have never shared these achievements with me if it was not for the sake of this blog. But the most interesting part is that her childhood dream is not much different from what she wants right now.
Desi describes herself as “a huge dreamer.” In fact, what she believes is that “if you don’t dream, then you are half-existing.” However, she thinks that dreams are not enough to help you live to “your fullest capacity.” For her a real person is the one who not only dreams, but who also does something to make his or her goals become a reality. “Otherwise people are just lingering in the wind,” she says.
When I asked Desi about a dream that she never even tried to make come true, I was so relieved that she didn’t find time for it. Actually, it is something extreme and dangerous, at least from my perspective, although I am not a very reliable dangerometer. What she wanted was to try kitesurfing. “One summer I was really up for it, but I was just watching it from the side and saying to myself how cool it is and at the same time I didn’t do anything,” she shared with me. I guess this is the reason I have a roommate now…
As I have already mentioned, she is from the few people who made their childhood dreams come alive. “Being involved in concerts, having a song recorded, and performing in the biggest concert hall in Bulgaria” are just a few from the goals she turned into a real life story. But as an ambitious AUBG student, she thinks that this is not enough: “Recently, I have been consumed with work and studying. But I hope to realize my dream even further.” From the future, she wants to have the opportunity to be engaged in music professionally. However, she is not from those who made big plans: “First I will finish what I have started here at AUBG and see what happens.”
Another dream that she made come true is her coming to AUBG, “which turned out even more spectacular” than what she imagined. (Not sure whether she meant the University or the parties, but…) While in high school, Desi hoped to “go to a place where to get along with people well” and to “feel comfortable around them.” “I am really thankful that I went to the SAT, it was worth it, finally now that I am here,” she jokes. “And of course, I have to graduate successfully. This would be even better,” she adds and we both burst into laughter.
When I asked her about her recipe for making dreams come true, she didn’t even wait for me to finish my question and shouted: “Being positive!” Desi believes that “this is the ultimate recipe for everything.” (Obviously, only when she cooks, this doesn’t help a lot!) Her advice to you, my dear reader, is to “preserve this spark that guides you and makes you safe and comfortable with what you are doing” and of course to try “making small steps each day towards what you want to accomplish.”
Being a dreamer herself, Desi thinks that those people “have this way of connecting with each other.” “They sense it,” she says, “It is an inner connection which happens among people and they find a way to connect with each other no matter what.” After all, the common misconception that opposites attract each other is always true only for electrons. Humans… well, we are just always an exception…
Xoxo
Keep dreaming!
AUBG Dreaming 