20/08/2024
Cause 🐢 are very demure , very mindful.
We chose this icon cause, actually a teacher ignited the acceptance of love for baking & sweets for me.
I, jy, went to an all boys school. As the outdated saying goes, boys will be boys & I could never fit in. I struggled a lot finding friends, being a part of any group, just being myself was definitely not kool at any point.
In secondary 3, on my birthday she called me to the front of class to chat & she handed me this a baking book filled with cakes & sweets.
Which I rarely talked about in school, cause you know cooking in my day was before chefs became cool on tv & baking was seen as a little lame.
I started tearing up when I opened the gift, it was the first shift towards self acceptance. This gesture means so much to me, it broke a new path towards where I am today.
She was wise, compassionate & really cared for all of us. Making a bunch of rambunctious boys into more sensitive perceptive humans & that was not even in her job scope.
Even if the peach blossom tree has taken you, I still think of the moments & thank you often for giving me a little more confidence in being myself. You are the goat.
❤️❤️❤️
