An Interview

Language is an ever evolving creature and the internet has done wonders to assist in helping others learn of the new ways it changes and evolves. Websites like Urban Dictionary are constantly updating with dozens of new words and variations of slang and cultural jargon. However, one word that I've stumbled across in my many adventurous interweb explorations was from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. The word that had captured my eye and ignited my mind was "Sonder".

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Quite often in life we have a tendency to fumble, bumble, and stumble around completely focussed on our own footing and willfully oblivious to any and everything else going on around us. By this I mean, we have a habit of only paying attention to what's going on in our lives and ignoring or not even considering that the people around us also have lives just as fascinating and complicated as our own!

It's in the same vein as the definition of 'sonder' that I found an opportunity to get to know one of my fellow classmates a bit better.

Her name is Samara Jones, and she's a lovely human being.

Samara had lived most of her life in New Jersey (like myself) but has been living in Pennsylvania for about two years presently. She's a single mother with a 13 year old son that is the world to her. She expressed in the deepest and most heartfelt way during our conversation just how much she loves being a Mother and how dear her son is to her. When she isn't being one of the best Mom's in Pennsylvania, Samara is always working hard both at work and at school. She's currently studying nursing and explained how through her life she's desired to help people. One of her greatest dreams is to, in some small way, shape, or form, help discover a cure for cancer. After losing so many loved ones to the disease, she wants to do all she can to help others from having to go through the same pain.

Samara had told me she thinks family is an important aspect in life that's lost some of it's luster in the present day. She gets along quite well with her parents now - but that wasn't quite the case growing up. Her Father was a Pastor at a Pentecostal Christian Church and, as such, had an immensely strict and confined upbringing. She described how back during her childhood she grew up in the Church, never going on many outings or venturing far outside of the pews and doors. However, despite the strict lifestyle, Samara learned that she loved to sing by being part of the church choir. To this very day she still writes songs in her spare time.

Music is also a big part of her other siblings lives as her younger brother is an aspiring hip-hop rap artist whom she, her older sister, and their parents support wholeheartedly.

Despite being single presently, Samara's a hopeless romantic who knows many great times are still ahead of her. And until then, she'll keep working hard both at work and parenting, studying hard to make a difference in the world, and occasionally watching the best Horror Movies (of which we can both agree is the greatest genre of movie).