Diyorbek’s notes

Nineteen. End of the Little Prince.

19. Wait, what? Am I? No, stop it. End of my teen era? No way.

I obnoxiously stopped feeling special on my birthdays after my 13th. The people I needed weren’t there anymore. It wasn’t special. I wasn’t happy. But I kept celebrating. Pretending. Because I didn’t want to end my little-prince-hood era. I kept lying — not to others, but to myself.

Even though it wasn’t special anymore, I couldn’t stop acting like a kid. Because who wants responsibility, right? Fuck it. Who cares what’s going to happen to you, besides yourself?

Up until now, I worked hard for one reason: to make my father proud. I lived for the satisfaction in his eyes. Nothing else mattered — not praise, not awards. Just his approval.

But I’m done with that. Not in a bitter way — just… I have to move on. I think he’s proud. Maybe he never said it out loud. But I felt it.

Things I care about have changed. I care more about the people around me now. I always did, but it wasn’t my priority. Now it is.

Some find peace in religion. Others in meditation. For me, it’s in service. Helping others. Giving back. I wake up with faith in change. Even when what I’m doing seems wrong, I know my end goal — giving something back.

I didn’t have a purpose writing this. Just woke up at 3AM and thought about myself.

I’m grown up now. Not a teen anymore. I’ve been doing things illegally since 14, and now I can finally do them legally. I just burned that kid today. And promised — to myself only — that I will make something of this life.

Good days or bad, I’ll stand by myself. Because I know others won’t. I hope this chapter will be full of memories I’ll cherish. And when I’m old, I won’t regret.

I’m still figuring things out. Still learning how to slow down. Still teaching myself it. However, to the ones who stuck around, even when I couldn’t explain what I was going through — thank you.

Be honest with yourself. Why would you go to an academic lyceum, private school, or public school when they don’t give you value?

A bunch of selfish people run the school egoistically without even realising that NO ONE knows about your lyceum or school in reality at all!

Opportunities? I bet you will get more opportunities when they set you free instead of chaining up until 3 p.m. or whatever.

Education Quality? [if there any] Just because it’s hard to get into an academic lyceum does not mean the education there is valuable or beneficial.

I left the #1 academic lyceum of its time in Uzbekistan after just studying for 1 semester there. I didn’t see the vision there.

I returned to Target because it was more than a school. I saw the vision and the opportunity there. I was one of the 50 people who got into the Uzbek class of that lyceum out of 5,000 applicants. I didn’t even think about what I saw giving up at that time.

Here I am, at one of the best universities in the world, studying on a full-ride scholarship; meanwhile, they are still proud of their students who got El-yurt Umidi because of nepotism or got admitted to mid-level European universities.

Yooooooooo!!!!!!


Free education at Target!??? Highly recommended if you have IELTS or good SAT score.

THE VERY FIRST SCHOOL THAT TEACHES AP CLASSES in Tashkent!

Imagine doing IELTS, SAT, and AP at the same time, at same place 🤩

kinda finish the game and go back to studies, ngl. we all know what’s gonna happen from this trajectory

‘gugurtga ketib’ —Canadian edit

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The very first visa of one of my students got approved to United States!

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morning guys, I need a favour!

i need good quality pictures of metro in tashkent, especially in something like at Alisher Navoi station with images of ‘Khamsat al-mutahayyirin’ or basically anything has culture meaning behind it.

I need as much as images as possible, preferably in file formal. please drop in the comments if you have any good quality pictures!