Its amazing how you can work side by side with someone for an entire six weeks, intimately sharing conversations and an office space, ideas, struggles, highs and lows, and come to find out that person has a lovely intense side to them that you never even touched upon. Maybe I just wasn’t listening?
This spring we took a design intern from our community to help in our graphic design studio. Samantha is interested in pursuing a career in graphic design and will be a freshman at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City this fall.
Samantha explained to me very early on how this past year she had a major decision to make. Would she pursue a career in graphic design or continue on with her love of the ballet…dancing, which she had done since she was a little girl.
Her decision to pursue graphic design as a career brought her to our studio in Croton on Hudson, NY to see if she really “likes it” and wanted to go for it. She would talk about her decision of graphic design over dance in a way that indicated she had given it much thought and prayer.
Yesterday she sent me these pictures of herself dancing in her last performance. I was awestruck. Just look at how beautiful she is. Somehow seeing those pictures made me wonder about her choice…. but I trust she did what is right for her.
Samantha is bright, witty and an extremely hard worker. She showed up for work each day, smiling, and enthusiastic ready to take on whatever we gave her, and ready to learn something new for the day. She is truly inspiring.
Samantha will succeed in whatever she does, because she chooses to have a bright positive attitude, which spills over into her design work and out onto everyone she’s around. It’s downright contagious!