Scissors, Mic & Pen

My name is Jonny; actually it’s Jonathan. Jonathan Donkor. Don’t worry, I am not going to add that I was born on 27th August or I went to Mfantsipim School or my favourite meals are Banku with fried fish and Jollof rice.

No! I wouldn’t because adding that info will make my introductory piece sound like one of the “myself essays” I wrote way back in basic school. Well, it appears I already have. Forgive me.

At  different  stages of  my life,  according to those “myself essays” I authored in basic school, I wanted  to be a  Priest , a Playwright,  a Poet, a Journalist , a Singer, an Actor, a  Fashion Designer and a lot more I can’t even remember.

Choosing one of them to focus on after senior high school was my worst day and nightmare until I decided that if I can’t be all of them, at least I should be most of them. To achieve this, I categorized them into three, representing each with a tool thus the Scissors, Mic (microphone) and Pen.

Scissors represents Fashion Designing. I’d like to become a celebrated fashion designer whose work would revolve around buttons, a clothing line, I intend naming jOn-buttOns^®. What slightly drives this passion is the disloyalty of most of the tailors I have had since childhood especially the one that stole my fabric and used it to sew a shirt for his son. Can you imagine?

Microphone signifies Music. Even though I enjoy singing in the bathhouse, I’m happy that I have not ended up as a bathroom musician, at least not yet. I read music as one of my elective subjects at Mfantsipim School and currently a chorister in the Ebenezer Methodist Church, Cape Coast. I Love Gospel, Jazz, Soul, R&B and any song I find pleasant to my ears. I have written a few songs, my favourite being a birthday song I wrote for my dearest friend and I believe that if John Legend, Stevie Wonder and Ghana’s Efya, my favorites, have done it, I too can.

Pen of course, symbolizes Writing. Aside what you are reading, I write poems, plays, short stories, movie scripts, tributes, in fact anything that requires a touch of creativity.  I host three blogs http://jonnydonkor.blogspot.com for poetry, www.fiction-files.blogspot.com for fiction and www.mystolenshots.blogspot.com for slightly humorous but thought provoking pictures and of course I co-host www.lifebeyonduniversity.blogspot.com. My personal motto is “write to right and delight.”

Completing Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) makes me thrilled. At least, for now, the Pen part of my dream is gradually taking shape and this springs optimism that with hard work, dedication and determination, the Scissors and Mic parts will also be accomplished.

My name is Jonny; actually it’s Jonathan. Jonathan Donkor. The future is my destination and I want you be my guest as I journey through Life Beyond University with my Scissors, Mic and Pen.