From the day I stepped out of my high school, I thought I'll never find the same set of guys whom I've grown with for the last 4 years. I'm just a typical gal who have been crying over spilled milk, thinking that it's the end of her happy merry life with her 'barkada'... The feeling was like being deprived of your comfort zone.
Academic endeavors were no stranger to me. I once belong to an environment where we were all trained to be best of ourselves. Competition. Our life. Everybody were struggling to make a mark. Everybody had a place; I had mine, too. That was high school for me. Of course! It wouldn't be complete with the set of friends I've been with. Who said that I'm far behind from being a normal girl? I enjoyed going out with my best buddies. I even date interesting guys I know. And even had my own first romance.
But the thing i enjoyed most was being the person I truly am. They love me as myself, giving me all the respect they think I deserve. FAMILY they are to me.
College! Culture Shock! I thought I stepped into the wrong doorstep. I felt I was deprived of my comfort zone. Strangers. There were a lot of them. Messy! A big mediocrity! A big bowl of cultures! Sometimes I get stuck in misunderstanding. Consciuos of them being nosey of my life, of my affairs. I don't seem to be getting the same respect i'm accustomed to. I cried a lot of times. Thanks to them. It's a big mess!!!!!!
But now, I can say that this big mediocrity is what adds color to my life as a college stud. Sometimes, i'm stuck in my own problems. I decided to keep it all to myself. But because of their being nosey, they helped me out of my own miseries. For all the times i thought they're intruding into my own privacy and comfort zone, I realized they're just so concerned of my life and the decisions I make.
Yes! i made some mess of my life. In the end, i'll just say, they were right after all. A big realization hit me that life is not all about who you are - the achievements you make, being a teachers' pet. It's all about making relationships work between you and the rest of the world. Sometimes, we feel that they're good for nothing. The least we know that these same people will be the ones who'll find you if ever you'll lose yourself. Sometimes I think they're too different from me and we'll never meet in the end. What makes it possible is the connection called friendship.
We people are the ones who put up standards, our own norms. But these norms can be broken if we open our selves to the people who help us grow. I'm still young - still have a lot to learn. College is not that bad after all. It is where i found the gifts of persons who helped me grow....
Thanks to you.........
