thank you letter for the scholarship

Dear Victoria,
When I was writing this, I assumed you were an integral part in getting me this scholarship, and I wanted you to be able to read my thank you letter. It was sent to Mrs. Wurzel at the end of April, but I wanted you to get a chance to read it too, as I mean every single word of it for both you and her. It is as follows:

Who I am and what I want: I would like to live in a world where a smile can change things, where a helpful hand can spark to life a generation of voluntarily disenfranchised students and dropouts. I want to live in a world where fashion is comfortable and comfort is fashion and individuality doesn’t just mean a useless word for wearing the same color socks everyday with the same face everybody else has on, while wearing a different color shirt.
To me fashion is meaningful. I’m the fashion columnist at UCLA’s newspaper, the Daily Bruin. The name is misleading though; I don’t really write about fashion. I write about interpersonal interactions, and body image and ideologies. Sometimes, fashion sneaks in on the side, but mostly it’s about how fashion affects these things.
I am about to embark on a project that tests the boundaries of communication, through fashion. It tests social margins, and how comfortable we are within ourselves, and thus with each other. It asks whether we are willing to initiate communication, or would we rather wait out shyness in the company of the loneliness that escorts it.
I’ve been reading a lot of books in all my spare time, and as I’ve been getting older, I’m feeling less of the urge to go out and party and ‘socialize’ which really means we talk about nothing with strangers. I’m feeling the need to really get to the heart of the problems in our culture.
I want to create a world wherein there exists no need for insecurity. I would like to be able to bring that world to people and even if I could only reach a few I could consider it successful.
My name is Dharmishta Rood and I’m a senior this year at UCLA. I have received your scholarship and am very thankful for it. You have no idea how much this means to me. When my project feels overwhelming and feels like how can I ever accomplish anything; I remember you, though I don’t know you, and know that somebody thought my project and my ideas were worthwhile enough to give me this scholarship, and that, for this instance is enough. It, among many other things, keeps me going. If you close your eyes and listen, silently, you can feel the world catch you, and hold you in its bare hands of existence.

Sincerely,

Dharmishta Rood