Rahmani’s intellectual home consists of people, places, and processes but people and places have a more important part than the process. Rahmani was an egotistical and pessimistic person, he feels out of place, yet he feels everyone else is the problem. He is a good student and he thinks too highly of himself to the point where school was pointless and felt like he wasn’t being challenged or his being intelligent was meaningless among those who weren’t like him. He felt like no one cared to even try to put in the effort to learn, as well as the professors, as if they were all just waiting until class was over go home and repeat, he himself became a part of that cycle. Towards the end, it all changed, both the school and the class of students and professor changed his perspective and he found where he belonged. In English class, a short story was being discussed, “Cat in the Rain”, and he was surprised to learn that this girl had a different interpretation of what he originally thought, it bewildered him, even more when the whole class began to say their own thoughts on the story. He found this to be what he needed, he finally felt like he belonged, the eagerness to learn that came from everyone gave him the opportunity to feel it as well what he has been longing to feel and he finally found purpose and meaning in school. It made him who he wanted to become and in return his egotistical and pessimistic self was gone and he began to tutor and help others giving purpose to his own self.
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